Dr. A.M.S. Mayer received his Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in immunovirology in 1980. After completing marine pharmacology postdoctoral studies with Professor Robert S. Jacobs (The Pharmacologist 59 (4), 2017) at the Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Santa Barbara from 1985-1988, Dr. Mayer joined Midwestern University in Chicago in 1993, and was appointed Full Professor in 2000. Dr. Mayer has served as President of Great Lakes Chapter of ASPET (2011-2013), Editor-in-Chief of MARINE DRUGS (2014-2018), and is currently a member of the Pharmacology Natural Products Section of IUPHAR. Dr. Mayer’s research interests include the immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology of marine natural products, writing comprehensive annual preclinical marine pharmacology annual reviews since 1998, and curating the clinical marine pharmacology/pharmaceutical website, which has been designed for researchers in academia, industry, and government, who are interested in the preclinical and clinical pharmacology of marine-derived compounds.