Which Dr. Cox has published work with Paul Alan Cox and what are his research affiliations?
Executive summary
The materials provided identify Paul Alan Cox as an active ethnobotanist and the executive director of Brain Chemistry Labs / Institute for Ethnomedicine and founder/chair of Seacology, with a substantial publication record and a long-standing research program on neurodegenerative disease [1] [2] [3]. The reporting supplied does not identify any other “Dr. Cox” who has published work with Paul Alan Cox; co-authors named in these sources include Sandra Banack and Rachael Dunlop, not another Cox [4] [5] [6].
1. The question being asked and the evidence standard
The user’s query asks for identification of “Which Dr. Cox has published work with Paul Alan Cox and what are his research affiliations,” which requires two discrete facts: (A) the identity of a different author surnamed Cox who co-authored publications with Paul Alan Cox, and (B) that person’s institutional or research affiliations; the documents provided must explicitly link a second “Dr. Cox” to joint publications with Paul Alan Cox to answer directly (no such explicit linkage is present in the supplied reporting) [1] [6].
2. What the supplied reporting does document about Paul Alan Cox’s own affiliations
Paul Alan Cox is repeatedly described across the provided sources as director or executive director of Brain Chemistry Labs / the Institute for Ethnomedicine in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and as founder/chairman of Seacology, with prior academic appointments and fellowships noted in his biography (Harvard Ph.D., Miller Fellowship, Fulbright) [1] [3] [2]. Multiple outlets reiterate his role at Brain Chemistry Labs and his leadership of a consortium of scientists pursuing diagnostics and therapeutics for ALS and Alzheimer’s [2] [4].
3. Who the reporting names as Paul Alan Cox’s collaborators (but not another “Dr. Cox”)
The sources identify specific collaborators on Paul Alan Cox’s teams and projects—most prominently Drs. Sandra Banack and Rachael Dunlop—credited by Brain Chemistry Labs and the Garden Club of America summaries for roles in diagnostic and neurodegenerative research, but none of these pieces cites a different individual surnamed Cox as a co-author with him [4] [5]. ResearchGate listings and article snippets in the supplied material show collaborative papers with Banack and Dunlop and others on topics such as BMAA and L‑serine, again without indicating a distinct “Dr. Cox” co-author beyond Paul Alan Cox himself [6].
4. Explicit absence of evidence for a second “Dr. Cox” in the provided sources and what that implies
A careful reading of the supplied reporting finds no explicit statement that another Dr. Cox co-authored publications with Paul Alan Cox; the biographies, news posts, and research summaries consistently center Paul Alan Cox as the named Cox and list other collaborators by different surnames [1] [4] [5]. That absence of evidence in these materials means it is not possible, based on the supplied reporting alone, to identify “which Dr. Cox” (other than Paul Alan Cox) published with him or to give that person’s affiliations; asserting a name or affiliation without a cited source would exceed the evidence provided [6].
5. Practical next steps to close the gap in public record
To resolve the question conclusively, pursue bibliographic queries of peer-reviewed databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science) and institutional repositories for papers co-authored by “P. A. Cox” or “Paul Alan Cox” and any other author with the surname Cox, and inspect author bylines and affiliation lines in full-text articles; ResearchGate and the Brain Chemistry Labs news pages are useful starting points but the supplied ResearchGate summary does not substitute for a targeted author search [6] [5]. If a reader needs an authoritative identification and institutional affiliation for a second Dr. Cox, those primary-publication checks are the only way to move from “not found in supplied reporting” to a documented answer.