Eloy Rodriguez

Eloy Rodriguez (born January 7, 1947^[1]) is an American biochemist. He is the James Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell University. He was born in Edinburg, Texas.^[2]

Collaborating with primatologist Richard Wrangham, Rodriguez introduced the concept of zoopharmacognosy.^[3]

Rodriguez graduated from the University of Texas, Austin with a B.S. in 1969 and a Ph.D. in phytochemistry and plant biology in 1975.^[4] Later, at the University of British Columbia, he received medical postdoctoral training in medicinal botany.^[2] He was an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine from 1976 to 1994^[4] before joining the faculty at Cornell.