Cody Wenthur
Expert on addiction, abused drugs, opioids, naloxone, psychoactive substances, psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, psychedelics, stress and reward learning, vaccine design, drug development, drug safety
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy; Director, Center for Psychedelic Research and Education School of Pharmacy Work: 608-265-6743 — Home and cell phones available upon request wenthur@wisc.edu Home page Twitter: @WenthurLab
Topics
- Mechanisms of action and therapeutic use for psychedelics, dissociatives, and other rapidly-acting antidepressants
- Drug reward and overdose risks from opioids, stimulants, and synthetic psychoactive drugs
- Generation and use of vaccines against psychoactive small molecules as a means to treat drug overdose and addiction
- Enhancing engagement of pharmacies and pharmacists in behavioral and mental healthcare
Achievements
- Assessing the role of pharmacological, psychological, and contextual manipulations on the impact of ketamine, psilocybin, and other psychoactive and psychedelic substances through NIMH and others.
- Provided expert input and interviews on mental health and addiction-related topics for print and radio outlets, including The Economist, C&EN, ACS Press Releases, and more
- Developed a new vaccine-based method that uses antibodies to understand and mitigate the activity of psychoactive drug mixtures, as published in Nature.
- Generated first-in-class glutamate-targeting compounds and used them to understand the role of this neurotransmitter in alteration of fear and stress learning, as published in PNAS.