Alexandros Makriyannis Alexandros Makriyannis (born September 9, 1939) is an American biochemist and professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he directs the Center for ...

is a professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Northeastern University, where his research group has synthesized many new compounds with

cannabinoid Cannabinoids () are several structural classes of compounds found in the cannabis plant primarily and most animal organisms (although insects lack such receptors) or as synthetic compounds. The most notable cannabinoid is the phytocannabinoid tet ...

activity. Some of those are:

See also