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Our latest guest is Professor Raphael Mechoulam. Professor Mechoulam is the first researcher to isolate THC and CBD. For that achievement and the decades of research into the endocannabinoid system that followed, Professor Mechoulam is often called the “Godfather of cannabis research”. Since his research began in the 1960s, Professor Mechoulam has received numerous academic awards. Most recently he received …
This episode’s guest is Hope Jones. She is the CEO of Superior Phenos, LLC, a hemp young plant production company in Arizona and CEO of Emergent Cannabis Sciences, an international cannabis and micropropagation consulting company with clients in Colombia, Australia, Germany and Canada. Dr. Jones has deep expertise in both hemp and cannabis often serving as an expert consultant on …
Our guest in this episode is Dr. Mauro Maccarrone. Mauro is a pioneer in endocannabinoid research. In 1997, his team identified the receptor targets for the first two endocannabinoids that were discovered by Professor Raphael Mechoulam earlier in the decade: anandamide and 2-AG. Since then, the endocannabinoid system has been the focus of his research. At CannMed 2021 he will present …
Our guest this week is Dr. Staci Gruber, Director of the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at McLean Hospital’s Brain Imaging Center and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gruber has spent decades investigating how both recreational and medical cannabis use affects the brain. In 2014, Dr. Gruber launched Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND), the …
On this episode, we talked with tissue culture expert, Mark Jordan. Mark is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Minibis headquartered in Longmont, CO, where he started a tissue culture lab dedicated to Cannabis research and development. His previous positions include work at Colorado Seed Incorporated, Eurofins Biodiagnostics, and the Denver Botanic Gardens. While at the Denver Botanic Gardens Mark …
On this episode we welcome Dr. Marion McNabb, President of the Cannabis Center of Excellence INC and CEO of Cannabis Community Care and Research Network (C3RN). Marion is a Public Health Doctor by training that has nearly 20 years of global and domestic public health experience. Her team recently completed a veterans’ health and medical cannabis research study with the …
On this episode we welcome Dr. Kevin Spelman from the National University of Natural Medicine. Kevin has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to medicinal plant, nutraceutical, and cannabinoid research and has authored 29 peer-reviewed publications on medicinal plants. Over the last 30 years, he has coordinated new product development, formulated product lines, advised on analytical and QC guidelines, …
This episode’s guest is Jordan Zager, co-founder and CEO of Dewey Scientific. Jordan is an expert in cannabis genetics and natural product biosynthesis, having authored multiple research papers in the fields of trichome development and metabolism, mathematical modeling of biochemical pathways, and functional genomics. Jordan’s CannMed 2021 presentation is titled “Gene Networks Underlying Cannabinoid and Terpenoid Accumulation in Cannabis” and …
We are excited to announce CannMed 2021’s Keynote Presenter in the Safety Focus Area is Grace Bandong, Scientific Strategy Leader Contaminants for Eurofins Food Integrity and Innovations. The title of Ms. Bandong’s presentation is “Risk Based Hazards Analysis: A Tool for Building A Comprehensive Analytical Testing Program,” in which she will explore the vulnerability of products/ingredients to contaminants and present …
This episode’s guest is plant pathology expert Zamir Punja, PhD of Simon Fraser University’s Department of Biological Sciences. Zamir’s research investigates the causes and management of plant diseases on cannabis, including fusarium, penicillium, powdery mildew, botrytis, as well as new and emerging plant pathogens. His CannMed 2018 presentation featured several amazing images Zamir’s team captured using an electron microscope. The image of …
