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Dr. Baldomero M. Olivera - Distinguished Professor at University of Utah. His group made a breakthrough discovery of a family of biomolecules they collectively calledconotoxins from Conus sp. marine snails (Cone shells) collected in tropical waters of the Philippines. These biomolecules are widely used in neuroscience research today in the study of ion channels and neuro-muscular synapses. The group's research effort. (the research group has Dr. Lourdes J. Cruz who has appointments in Utah and the University of the Philippines and SCF's long time reader, lurker and sometimes poster Dr. Fe. C. Abogadie as members among others) was prominently featured in and was on the cover of Science (Conus markings) in 1990, (along with a glowing feature on Dr. Olivera and the importance of his discovery) and the EMBO Journal (European Molecular Biology Organization) also in 1990.

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