Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Sazzad Hossain, PhD, MSc

Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Hossain has more than 20 years of academic and industrial experience in new drug discovery and natural health product development. His experience in phytochemistry and drug development served as the scientific foundation of InMed.

As Group Leader and Senior Scientist at Biotechnology Research Institute of National Research Council Canada, of the Canadian Government primary biotechnology research organization, he established a pharmacology laboratory to evaluate the safety and efficacy of new drugs under development for the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular and ocular diseases.

Prior to joining the National Research Council Canada, he served as Associate Director of Pharmacology at Xenon Pharmaceuticals in Vancouver, B.C., leading pharmacology teams targeting pain, inflammation and cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Hossain received his PhD in Biology from Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine & Biotechnology and received post-doctoral training in the Department of Nutritional Science and Department of Medical Genetics of The University of British Columbia. He served as Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil between 1988 -1996, and is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed papers; primarily in the fields of pharmacology, genetics and nutritional sciences.
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Dr. Mauro Maccarrone, PhD

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Maccaronne is Professor and Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Campus Bio-Medico, University of Rome. He also serves as Director of the Laboratory of Lipid Neurochemistry of the European Center for Brain Research-IRCCS

Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome.

Dr. Maccarrone served as the President of the International Cannabinoid Research Society and was the recipient of their 2016 Mechoulam Award. He also served as Chair of the 2015 Gordon Research Conference on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS, and is a founding member of the European Cannabinoid Research Alliance. In addition to having authored more than 460 published papers, he is the holder of eight issued patents.

Dr. Maccarrone serves as referee on the editorial boards to numerous scientific journals, including Science, Nature Medicine, JAMA, PNAS, Blood, Brain, Journal of Neuroscience, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Cannabinoids and Cannabinoid Research. He is also Editor of Biochemistry for the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS).
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Dr. Vikramaditya G. Yadav, PhD

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Yadav is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and serves as the Chair of the Biotechnology Division of the

Chemical Institute of Canada.

He has been recognized by Medicine Maker journal as one of the 100 most influential people in drug development and manufacturing. He joined UBC, Canada’s pre-eminent center for biotechnology research, in the summer of 2014 and has since established a world-leading, industry-connected research group that works on wide-ranging topics such as metagenomics, plant chemistry, tissue engineering, drug discovery and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Dr. Yadav received his Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His graduate work focused on enzyme and microbial metabolic engineering for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, and conducted post-doctoral research in biophysics and biological thermodynamics at Harvard University. Dr. Yadav received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
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