Temple University has formed a collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University’s Center for Medical Cannabis Education & Research to encourage research and education initiatives related to medical uses for marijuana.
The initiatives will involve physicians and scientists working at Temple and Jefferson, along with researchers elsewhere in the state and the nation.
The universities will co-present the Carolina Cannabinoid Collective Conference on from Oc. 28 to Oct. 30. The event will feature more than 100 of the country’s leading cannabinoid researchers, who will gather in Philadelphia to address recent developments and discoveries in the field. The keynote speakers will be Dr. Donald Abrams, chief of hematology-oncology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Yasmin Hurd, a professor of psychiatry, neuroscience and pharmacology and systems therapeutics and director of the Center for Addictive Disorders at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
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