
Walber Toma
Professor
Santa CecÃlia University
Brazil
Biography
Walber Toma has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from University of Campinas (Unicamp) from Brazil. He is the researcher of the Department of Ecology from Santa CecÃlia University (Unisanta) and also from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in São Camilo University (São Camilo). In Santa CecÃlia University he is the main researcher of a Laboratory of Natural Products that seeks ethnopharmacological informations from the south coast populations of São Paulo state. He is also the director of an specialization course in Clinical Pharmacology at Unisanta. He has published more than 30 papers on the following subjects: ethnopharmacology, gastroprotective activity of plant extracts, toxicology and ecotoxicology assays from natural products.
Research Interest
Pharmacology of gastrointestinal diseaes, Pharmacology of pain and inflammation and Pharmacology of Medicinal plants.