Scientific Advisors
Mauro Maccarrone, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Maccarrone is Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L’Aquila (Italy). He is also Head of the Lipid Neurochemistry Unit at the European Center for Brain Research - IRCCS Santa
Lucia Foundation, Rome.
For his research activity, he has received the 4th Royan International Research Award for Reproductive Biomedicine (2003), the 2007 IACM Award for Basic Research, the 2016 ICRS Mechoulam Award, and the 2020 Tu Youyou Award.
Dr. Maccarrone served as President of the International Cannabinoid Research Society in 2010-2011, Chair of the 2015 Gordon Research Conference on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS and is a founding member of the European Cannabinoid Research Alliance. Previous roles include visiting Professor at Leiden University (Leiden Institute of Chemistry, The Netherlands) in 2017, faculty member of The Lambert Center for the Study of Medicinal Cannabis and Hemp at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, since 2019, and visiting Professor at Cambridge University (Department of Psychology, U.K.) in 2019 as well as at National University of Rosario (Argentina) in 2021.
Dr. Maccarrone has authored more than 500 published papers and is a holder of 8 issued patents. He is listed among the Top Italian Scientists.
For his research activity, he has received the 4th Royan International Research Award for Reproductive Biomedicine (2003), the 2007 IACM Award for Basic Research, the 2016 ICRS Mechoulam Award, and the 2020 Tu Youyou Award.
Dr. Maccarrone served as President of the International Cannabinoid Research Society in 2010-2011, Chair of the 2015 Gordon Research Conference on Cannabinoid Function in the CNS and is a founding member of the European Cannabinoid Research Alliance. Previous roles include visiting Professor at Leiden University (Leiden Institute of Chemistry, The Netherlands) in 2017, faculty member of The Lambert Center for the Study of Medicinal Cannabis and Hemp at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, since 2019, and visiting Professor at Cambridge University (Department of Psychology, U.K.) in 2019 as well as at National University of Rosario (Argentina) in 2021.
Dr. Maccarrone has authored more than 500 published papers and is a holder of 8 issued patents. He is listed among the Top Italian Scientists.
David G. Morgan, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Dr. David Morgan is Director of the Alzheimer’s Alliance and MSU Foundation Professor of Translational Neuroscience at Michigan State University. Dr. Morgan’s research interests are Alzheimer’s disease, aging and brain function.
He is internationally recognized for his work on immunotherapy and gene therapy to treat the Alzheimer-related pathologies. Previously, he was CEO of the Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute at the University of South Florida. While there, Dr. Morgan oversaw development of the Community-Based Memory Screening programs and the country’s first mobile clinical trial unit for Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Morgan received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Northwestern University and spent 10 years at the University of Southern California before joining the University of South Florida in 1992. He has participated in over 90 grant-years of NIH funded research and published over 200 research articles. Dr. Morgan regularly sits on grant review panels for NIH and other agencies. In addition to his research activities, he has consulted with both major pharmaceutical and small biotechnology companies and also advised capital investment organizations regarding the most promising therapeutic approaches to curing Alzheimer’s disease. He has also advocated nationally for additional Alzheimer’s research funding through his role at Researchers Against Alzheimer’s and with the Alzheimer’s Association.
Barry Greenberg, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Barry Greenberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Translational Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Greenberg has been involved in Alzheimer’s disease (“AD”) research and drug discovery since 1985, holding a series of positions internationally in the US, Sweden and Canada. He was part of a drug discovery team at AstraZeneca leading over 50 individuals from eight departments. He later led the preclinical biology research program at Neurochem, Inc. in Québec as Senior Director of Pharmacology.
Dr. Greenberg moved to the University Health Network in Toronto in 2008, as Director of Neuroscience Drug Discovery and Development, where he was responsible for the conceptualization and leadership as Strategy Director of the Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, a collaborative alliance across five research institutes. Additionally, he served as Chair of the National Institute on Aging’s international committee, which was charged with strategizing the future structure of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (“ADRC”) network. Dr. Greenberg moved to Johns Hopkins in 2018 to lead the development of an AD Translational Center, with the objective of integrating basic and clinical research to enable the development of effective therapies that will delay or prevent AD at its earliest stages. He has been involved with the Johns Hopkins ADRC since that time, as a member of its Executive Committee and Co-Leader of its Research Education Component. He serves on several committees and advisory boards for NIA-funded initiatives focused on genetics, model development and clinical trials in AD, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions.”