Dr. Fabio Boylan, Associate Professor in Pharmacognosy, is a pharmacist with particular interest in the areas of ethnopharmacology (encompassing natural product isolation and analysis of herbal medicinal preparations and the validation of their pharmacological activities) and chemotaxonomic analysis. Transdisciplinarity is applied to his approach to teaching and researching. Dr. Boylan is closely engaged in Global initiatives in the area of pharmacognosy having current projects running in conjunction with institutions in Brazil, Serbia, Kazakhstan, China, among others. Several MSc. and Ph.D. students from those countries as well as Ireland were supervised by Dr. Boylan to completion.