Scientific Advisory Board

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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