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Matthias Liechti
Matthias Emanuel Liechti (born 27 May 1970) is a Swiss scientist and physician who studies psychedelics, entactogens, and other psychoactive drugs. He is the head of the Liechti Lab at the University of Basel in Switzerland. The lab conducts '' in-vitro'' research, animal studies, and clinical studies of psychoactive drugs. They have conducted clinical studies of drugs including LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and MDMA. The lab also characterizes novel psychoactive substances (designer drugs). Liechti is a professor of clinical pharmacology and internal medicine and an attending physician at the University of Basel. He attended and underwent training at the University of California, San Diego and the University Hospital of Zurich, among other institutions. In April 2020, the Liechti Lab entered an agreement and long-term partnership with the psychedelic pharmaceutical company MindMed such that MindMed would have exclusive rights to the lab's data, compou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zurich
Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The Urban agglomeration, urban area was home to 1.45 million people (2020), while the Zurich Metropolitan Area, Zurich metropolitan area had a total population of 2.1 million (2020). Zurich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Zurich's main railway station are the largest and busiest in the country. Permanently settled for over 2,000 years, Zurich was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans, who called it '. However, early settlements have been found dating back more than 6,400 years (although this only indicates human presence in the area and not the presence of a town that early). During the Middle Ages, Zurich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal Study
Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and ''in vivo'' testing, is the use of animals, as model organisms, in experiments that seek answers to scientific and medical questions. This approach can be contrasted with field studies in which animals are observed in their natural environments or habitats. Experimental research with animals is usually conducted in universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, defense establishments, and commercial facilities that provide animal-testing services to the industry. The focus of animal testing varies on a continuum from Basic research, pure research, focusing on developing fundamental knowledge of an organism, to applied research, which may focus on answering some questions of great practical importance, such as finding a cure for a disease. Examples of applied research include testing disease treatments, breeding, defense research, and Toxicology testing, toxicology, including Testing cosmetics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
