Twinning TrePsy Winter School 2023
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Role of the cannabinoid CB2 receptor in the regulation of anxiety and depression
Jorge Manzanares is a Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacology of the Miguel Hernandez University (UMH) and a principal investigator at the Instituto de Neurociencias of the CSIC and UMH. His research focuses on the involvement of the endocannabinoid signaling in neuropsychiatric disorders and addiction, with the overreaching goal of identifying new and effective treatments.
Cannabinoid receptors in the brain: extracting specificity from ubiquity
Dr Giovanni Marsicano is a tenured researcher at Inserm. He leads the group “Endocannabinoids and Neuroadaptation” at the NeuroCentre Magendie, an INSERM and University of Bordeaux Research Center devoted to neuroscience. Dr. Marsicano is member of the SfN, the French Society of Neuroscience, the International Cannabinoid Research Society (ICRS), and he has been recently elected at EMBO and at FRM (Fondation de la Recherche Medicale). He received, among others, the IACM Young Investigator Award (2007), the Bettencourt-Schuller Price (2008), the Grand Prix Robert Debré (2015), and the prestigious Grand Prix Lamonica for Neurobiology (2021).