Scientific Advisors

The Beckley Foundation has an advisory board of distinguished scientists.
Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, was a founding member of the board until his death in April 2008 (also visit  Hofmann’s Elixir: LSD and the New Eleusis)

PROF. ROGER PERTWEE

Roger Pertwee has three degrees from the University of Oxford: MA (in biochemistry), D.Phil. (in pharmacology) and D.Sc. (in physiological sciences). He is Professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of Aberdeen, Director of Pharmacology for GW Pharmaceuticals, co-chairman of the International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR) Subcommittee on Cannabinoid Receptors, a...Read More..

PROF. COLIN BLAKEMORE

PROF. COLIN BLAKEMORE MedSci Hon FRCP FRS Colin Blakemore studied Medical Sciences in Cambridge and completed a PhD in Physiological Optics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968. From 1968-79 has was a Demonstrator and then Lecturer in Physiology at Cambridge, and was also Director of Medical Studies at...Read More..

PROF. GUSTAV BORN

PROF. GUSTAV BORN M.A., D.Phil., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., F.K.C. Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, London University. Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College. He has had a distinguished career in cardiovascular...Read More..

PROF. VALERIE CURRAN

PROF. VALERIE CURRAN Ph.D. Valerie Curran is Professor of Psychopharmacology at University College London. Her research interests include: 1. Using psychotropic drugs as probes to explore and thereby enhance our understanding of the neurotransmitter basis of cognitive and emotional processing. 2. Differentiating the actions of different cannabinoids on schizotypal symptoms,...Read More..

PROF. GORDON CLARIDGE

PROF. GORDON CLARIDGE  MA, Ph.D.Lond; D.Sc, Glas. Emeritus Professor of Abnormal Psychology, University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, and Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Author of The Origins of Mental Illness and Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health. (With R. Pryor and G. Watkins) Sounds from the Bell...Read More..

PROF. MARK GEYER

PROF. MARK GEYER Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego. Director of the Basic Neuroscience Unit of the Mental Illness Research, Clinical, and Education Center. President and Fellow of theInternational Behavioural Neuroscience Society. Vice-President of the International Serotonin Club. Member of the Scientific Council of...Read More..

PROF. LESTER GRINSPOON

PROF. LESTER GRINSPOON M.D. Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Served 40 years as Senior Psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychiatric Association. Founding editor of the Annual Review of Psychiatry and the Harvard...Read More..

PROF. LESLIE L. IVERSEN

PROF. LESLIE L. IVERSEN Ph.D., F.R.S. Visiting Professor of Pharmacology, University of Oxford and Current Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). Director of the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases at King’s College, University of London. Previously, Director of the Neuroscience Research Centre of Merck Research Laboratories, and Director...Read More..

PROF. YURI E. MOSKALENKO

PROF. YURI E. MOSKALENKO Ph.D. Head of the Laboratory of Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. Doctor of Sciences, Professor of Physiology, Honour Scientist of The Russian Federation, Academician of International Astronautics Academy, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural...Read More..

PROF. DAVE E. NICHOLS

PROF. DAVE E. NICHOLS Ph.D. Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology, Purdue University, USA. Previous member of numerous NIH, NIMH and NIDA advisory groups. Currently serving on the NIMH Neuropharmacology and Neurochemistry Study Section. Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and American Association of Pharmaceutical...Read More..

PROF. DAVID NUTT

PROF. DAVID NUTT M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Psych., F.Med.Sci. Head of Neurophyshopharmacology at Imperial College London and Chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs; President of the European College of Neuro-Psychopharmacology (ECNP). Former Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). Editor of the Journal of...Read More..

PROF. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

PROF. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN M.D., Ph.D. V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute. Ramachandran initially trained as a doctor and subsequently...Read More..

PROF. TREVOR ROBBINS

PROF. TREVOR ROBBINS Ph.D. Trevor Robbins was appointed in 1997 as the Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He was elected to the Chair of Expt. Psychology (and Head of Department) at Cambridge from October 2002. He is also Director of the newly-established Cambridge MRC Centre in...Read More..

DR. ALEXANDER SHULGIN

DR. ALEXANDER SHULGIN Ph.D. After receiving his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from U.C. Berkeley 1954, Dr. Shulgin went on to work as a research director at BioRad Laboratories and a research chemist at the Dow Chemical Company. He is the author of approximately 200 scientific papers, 20 patents, and 20 book...Read More..