September 2023
Dr. Vandrey is an experimental psychologist with degrees from the University of Delaware (BA) and University of Vermont (PhD). He is currently a Professor at the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (BPRU). Dr. Vandrey’s research focuses primarily on the impact of route of administration, dose, and chemical composition of cannabis products on resultant drug effects […]
August 2023
Dr. Lefsrud is an Associate Professor at McGill University and leads the Biomass Production Laboratory. His education includes a B.Sc. (USask) and M.Sc. (Rutgers) in Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering, and a Ph.D. (UTenn) in Plant Physiology, giving him a background in agriculture, biology, and engineering. The laboratory’s primary goal is the improvement of plants […]
July 2023
Jan Frederik (‘Fred’) Stevens earned his M.S. in pharmacy (1988), Pharm.D. (1990), and Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry (1995) from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received postdoctoral training at Oregon State University (1995-1999), the Free University of Amsterdam (1999-2000), and the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry, Halle/Saale, Germany (2000-2002). In 2002, he joined […]
July 2023
Dr. Jodi Gilman is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Addiction Medicine. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from Brown University. Dr. Gilman’s research uses multi-modal imaging, behavioral and cognitive testing to understand the biological, psychological, and clinical aspects […]
June 2023
Dr. Reinhold Penner is the Director of Research at The Center for Biomedical Research at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He obtained his PhD from the University of Giessen, Germany, in 1986 and spent his Postdoc time until 1990 in the lab of Nobel Laureate Dr. Erwin Neher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical […]
April 2023
Dr. James DeDecker is Director of the Michigan State University Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center in Chatham, Michigan and a Specialist in the MSU Extension Community, Food and Environment Institute. James has led hemp research at MSU since 2019 with a focus on agronomy, variety performance, and integrated pest management for all hemp […]