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Dr. Dennis J. McKenna, PhD.
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Dr. McKenna is presently a consultant for Nutraceutix, a company developing natural products for health care and a co-founder and Director of Ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Institute. Prior to that he was the director of Ethnopharmacology at Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a West Coast company committed to the discovery of new therapeutic drugs from plants used in ethnomedicine.
His Ph.D. work, at the University of British Columbia, completed in 1984, was an interdisciplinary ethnographic, chemical, and pharmacological investigation of ayahuasca and oo-koo-he, two plant-derived hallucinogens used among indigenous peoples in South America. He subsequently completed fellowships at the National Institute of Mental Health and in the Department of Neurology at Stanford University. He has traveled in South America and gathered plant specimens from native populations. Dr. McKenna has previously collaborated with the other co-founders, and has published important studies on the anatomic location of brain receptors for psychedelics.
E-Mail Address: Dennis@heffter.org or 74224.2072@compuserve.com
- MAPS Newsletter Articles:
- The Hoasca Project: Proposal For A Biomedical
- The Hoasca Project Update
- The Hoasca Project Update 2
- MDMA Neurotoxicity Update
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