Eduardo M Salinas-Stefanon
Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Biography
Eduardo M Salinas-Stefanon received his MD from the University of Puebla (BUAP), Mexico in 1980, he received his PhD in Physiological Sciences in 1996 awarded by University of Colima, Mexico. He carried out his postdoctoral studies under the supervision of Dr W. Giles at the University of Calgary, Canada in Pharmacology and Electrophysiology and with Dr P.H. Backx at the Centre for Cardiovascular Research, University of Toronto, Canada. He became a Full Professor in Physiology in 1984 at the Medical Faculty (BUAP), Mexico. He co-founded the Institute of Physiology BUAP in 1995, becoming head of the Department of Cardiac Biophysics. He became a member of the National Research System in 1993. His main research field includes cardiac physiology (pharmacology and biophysics) and protein-protein interactions of the subunits of the Na+ channel, including molecular dynamics of cardiac drugs. He is member of the Biophysical Society and SOBLA (Latin American Biophysical Society) since the 90s.