Mahmoud A. ElSohly is an Egyptian-born American pharmacologist known for his research into

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. He is a professor of pharmaceutics and research professor at the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the

University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi (Epithet, byname Ole Miss) is a Public university, public research university in University, near Oxford, Mississippi, United States, with a University of Mississippi Medical Center, medical center in Jackson, Miss ...

. He is also the director of the University of Mississippi's Marijuana Research Project, the only legal source of

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that can be used for medical research in the United States. He is also the president and laboratory director of ElSohly Laboratories, Incorporated.

Education and career

ElSohly received his B.S. and M.S. from

Cairo University Cairo University () is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo. It was founded on 21 December 1908;"Brief history and development of Cairo University." Cairo University Faculty of En ...

, after which he received his Ph.D. from the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

. He began working at the University of Mississippi in 1976. In 1980, he became the director of their Marijuana Project. In addition to his work on cannabis, ElSohly's research on

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led to the development of PDC-APB, a candidate for a vaccine against skin irritation from

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Books

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References

External links

Mississippi Faculty pageElSohly Laboratories, Inc.
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Living people American pharmacologists Cairo University alumni University of Pittsburgh alumni University of Mississippi faculty Egyptian emigrants to the United States Cannabis researchers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-academic-scientist-stub