Biographical Statement

Max Huisden’s 20-year laboratory research and management career focuses on Forensics, Environmental Health and Safety, and Naturopathic Medicine. Currently the point person for a collaboration between the University of Florida (UF) and the Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname (AdeKUS) he is spearheading the effort to validate medicinal properties and to identify the active molecular structures of ethno-pharmacologic drugs from the Amazon rainforest while contributing to the improvement of its environmental well being. As a scientist his interests involve environmental-health and naturopathic-medicine, physiology and toxicology, biochemistry and molecular diagnostics, pharmaceutics and ethno-pharmacology, holistic nutrition, agriculture and food engineering, drugs and forensics.