NYU Langone Health Sets Up Research Center for Psychedelic Medicine

Charitable donations and support valued at more than $10 million are aiding in the progression of NYU Langone Health’s study of psychedelic medicine. Langone Health will be launching a center for psychedelic medicine, which will focus on physician training and research in this burgeoning field.

Once completed, the NYU Langone Center for Psychedelic Medicine, which will be under the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone, will center on a trio of transdisciplinary areas: preclinical, medicine and psychiatry research. In addition to this, the center will launch a Psychedelic Medicine Research Training Program, which will assist in the development of postdoctoral fellows and early-career faculty members into independent investigators in the psychedelic medicine field.

Michael P. Bogenschutz, a leader in the psychedelic medicine field and an NYU Grossman School of Medicine psychiatry professor who will serve as center director, explained that these resources would offer an environment in which trainees, clinicians, scientists and other personnel could contribute in various ways, to ensure that the drive to learn more about psychedelics is bolstered in the face of medical breakthroughs that are backed by science.

One of the organizations who showed support for the new psychedelic medicine center was neuropharmaceutical company MindMed, which gave $5 million. The company develops and finds new methods of treating various mental health conditions through the progression of hallucinogenic and nonhallucinogenic compounds. The company will help set up a psychedelic-based training program for clinical investigators adept in the study of treatments based off of psychedelics for critical mental health requirements. The funding from MindMed will offer pilot research funds, training and salary support for these positions: two postdoctoral and two junior faculty fellows for a five-year period.

Support to set up the center also came from Carey Turnbull, a philanthropist and business leader who pledged a $1 million gift; that was in addition to several other seven-figure donations he sourced from his network. Turnbull is the president of the Heffter Research Institute, which is a not-for-profit organization committed to backing studies on psychedelics such as psilocybin for treatment of various disorders as well as mental health conditions.

The NYU Langone Center for Psychedelic Medicine will act as NYU Langone’s center for advancement in psychedelic research. Current and past research has focused mainly on the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, addiction and existential and psychiatric distress linked to advanced cancer.

The chair of the NYU Langone’s Psychiatry Department, Charles R. Marmar, stated that the infrastructure as well as the support and training opportunities of the new center would catapult psychedelic research efforts to new heights.

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