University of Cincinnati researchers are collaborating with researchers at Miami University to explore ways that psychedelic drugs could be used as treatments for a variety of mental illnesses. Andrew Jones, assistant professor of chemical, paper and biomedical engineering at Miami University, has successfully manufactured psilocybin in the lab. He is sharing those compounds with Eric Wohleb, PhD, of the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology at the UC College of Medicine the compounds to test in Wholeb's lab.
WVXU produced a story on the research in which Wohleb will soon expand his research to study new compounds in lab-manufactured magic mushroomsto test their effectiveness in treating mental illness in animal models.
Lead photo of Eric Wohleb, Andrew Jones and UC graduate student Alex Kuhn/Ann Thompson/WVXU
