DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND GLOBAL TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS,
REGISTRATION TO ICRS2021 WAS RESTRICTED TO VIRTUAL FORMAT ONLY
ABOUT OUR SYMPOSIUM
The International Cannabinoid Research Society is a non-political, non-religious organization dedicated to scientific research in all fields of cannabinoids, with more than 650 international Members researching the endogenous, plant-derived and synthetic cannabinoids and related bioactive lipids.
Our annual ICRS Symposia are held worldwide - this year we broadcast from Jerusalem! We met on June 21-24, 2021 – representing 50+ countries, ICRS Membership celebrated diversity, equality and academics. It was brilliant.
74 Oral Presentations
9 Plenary Presentations
200+ Poster Presentations
Broadcast from the state-of-the-art facilities at the ICC Jerusalem venue – Israel's premiere Symposium host.
A brilliant delegate experience – with 100+ oral presentations,
200 posters and 9 plenary sessions, including Raphael Mechoulam.
We couldn't do it without our kind sponsors – our contributors and supporters make our presentations and Symposia possible.
MEET OUR SPEAKERS
We gathered a brilliant group of speakers from around the globe – leaders in their own field – presenting the latest in cutting-edge cannabinoid research. The event was a brilliant success. Congratulations to our Trainee and Braude Foundation Awardees!
ICRS Trainee Awards
Congratulations to the following outstanding students who met the stringent criteria for an ICRS2021 Trainee Award:
Pre-Doctoral Trainees
Bryant Avalos, United States
Samantha Ayoub, Canada
Samantha Baglot, Canada
Elad Ben-Cnaan, Israel
Tallan Black, Canada
Taryn Bosquez, United States
Courtney Bouchet, United States
Laura Boullon, Ireland
Stephanie Bourke, Ireland
Marta Bryk, Poland
Chloé Buch, France
Madilyn Coles, Australia
Marieka DeVuono, Canada
Nadia Di Franco, France
Clare Diester, United States
Julien Dodu, United States
Megan Drupals, Canada
Laura Figuerola Asencio, Spain
Asaad Gammal, Israel
Alessandra Gargano, Germany
Kennedy Goldsborough, United States
Mona Heiland, Ireland
Shira Hirsch, Israel
Mary Hopkins, Ireland
Bryan Jenkins, Canada
Erin Johnson, United States
Clare Johnson, United States
Minhi Kang, United Kingdom
Radka Kocvarova, Israel
Joanna Agnieszka Komorowska-Müller, Germany
Veronika Kondev, United States
Gitit Kra, Israel
Ana Lago-Fernández, Spain
Alexis League, United States
Savannah Lightfoot, Canada
Claudia Lutelmowski, Canada
Xintian Lyu, United States
Cristina Manenti, Italy
Anna Paula Marçal de Melo, Brazil
Jack Markham, Australia
Erin Martin, United States
Jakub Mlost, Poland
Violaine Mongeau-Pérusse, Canada
Mohammed Mustafa, United States
Bolanle Fatimat Olabiyi, Germany
Elisa Pabon, United States
Lia Parada Iglesias, Brazil
Hadar Peeri, Israel
Hudson Reddon, Canada
Ariel Rothner, Israel
Samuel Ruiz de Martín Esteban, Spain
Samah Shahen, Israel
Amal Shoeib, United States
Sarah Shrader, United States
Lucy Sloan, United States
Eric Sparkes, Australia
Jennifer Spohrs, Germany
Michelle St. Pierre, Canada
Hayley Thorpe, Canada
Sarah Vanegas, United States
Beth Wiese, United States
Mark Wiley, United States
Courtney P. Wood, United States
Alexander Young, Canada
Post-Doctoral Trainees
Saja Baraghithy, Israel
Luara Augusta Batista, Brazil
Rayssa Brianis Costa, Brazil
Dorit Farfara, Israel
Jacqueline-Marie Ferland, United States
Sumanta Garai, United States
Briana Hempel, United States
Catherine Hume, Canada
Bogna Ignatowska-Jankowska, Japan
Richard Kevin, Australia
Magdalena Kostrzewa, Italy
Stephanie Lake, United States
Ali Mahmoud, Italy
Catharine Mielnik, Canada
Paula Morales, Spain
Lesley O'Brien, United States
Erin Rock, Canada
Richard Slivicki, United States
Michael Udoh, Australia
Braude Foundation Awardees
Dr. Monique C. Braude spent her career at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), where she was instrumental in promoting preclinical research in cannabis and cannabinoids. In addition to her passion for cannabinoid research, Dr. Braude believed strongly in helping women enter scientific careers.
Dr. Braude was born in Lisieux, France in 1925. Her undergraduate degree was in pharmacy and she worked as a drug store pharmacist before moving to the Laboratoires Blaque as chief of production of drug specialties. At the end of WWII, she met her future husband, George, a French chemical engineer from Halle, Germany. They married in Paris in 1949 and moved to the United States in the early 1950’s. Monique went on to earn her PhD in Pharmacology from the Ohio State University, was a member of the Society of Toxicology and a member of the Committee on Professional Relations and Standards from 1983 to 1985. Dr. Braude was instrumental in the founding of the International Cannabinoid Research Society, served as our President in 1993, and received our first ICRS Career Achievement Award in 1999. Her legacy of support of Graduate Women in Science continues through this well-deserved ICRS award.
Congratulations to the following outstanding pre- and post-Doctoral students
who have received recognition from the Monique C. and George L. Braude Foundation:
Pre-Doctoral Braude Foundation Awardees
Clare Diester – "EFFECTS OF ENDOCANNABINOID CATABOLIC ENZYME INHIBITORS AND ∆9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL ON ACUTE PAIN-DEPRESSED NESTING IN MICE"
Clare Johnson – "GPR55 ANTAGONIST ML193 AND AGONIST O-1602 HAVE CELL AND TIME-DEPENDENT EFFECTS ON LIPID REGULATION"
Erin Johnson – "PHYTOCANNABINOID CONCENTRATIONS IN HEMP DERIVED PRODUCTS: LC-MS/MS ASSAY VALIDATION AND QUANTIFICATION OUTCOMES"
Veronika Kondev – "UTILIZING A NOVEL ENDOCANNABINOID BIOSENSOR TO ELUCIDATE CIRCUIT-SPECIFIC ENDOCANNABINOID REGULATION OF VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS-BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA"
Alexis League – "INHIBITION OF MONOACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE ALTERS DENDRITIC BRANCHING COMPLEXITY AND REWARD-RELATED BEHAVIOR IN TAT TRANSGENIC MICE"
Xintian Lyu – "DOSAGE AND FORMULATIONS RECEIVED BY PATIENTS WITHIN A US STATE CANNABIS PROGRAM"
Chante Muller – "UNIQUE ENTRY OF ANANDAMIDE AT TRPV1"
Alexis Papariello – "CB1 ANTAGONISM INCREASES EXCITATORY SYNAPTOGENESIS IN A CORTICAL SPHEROID MODEL OF FETAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT"
Lucy Sloan – "CANNABIDIOL INHIBITS ANGIOGENIC PROCESSES IN RETINAL MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS"
S. Olivia Vanegas – "NOVELTY-INDUCED HYPOPHAGIA AS A MEASURE OF SPONTANEOUS CANNABINOID WITHDRAWAL"
Beth Wiese – "BRAIN PENETRANT, BUT NOT PERIPHERALLY RESTRICTED, SYNTHETIC CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR AGONISTS PROMOTE MORPHINE-MEDIATED RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION"
Post-Doctoral Braude Foundation Awardees
Jacqueline-Marie Ferland – "ADOLESCENT THC HAS DOSE-DEPENDENT EFFECTS ON REWARD, STRESS REACTIVITY, AND DECISION MAKING IN ADULTHOOD VIA PERTURBATIONS IN ASTROCYTES"
Ewa Galaj – "THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF PIMSR1, A NOVEL CB1 NEUTRAL ANTAGONIST, FOR COCAINE USE DISORDER: EVIDENCE FROM PRECLINICAL RESEARCH"
Stephanie Lake – "CANNABIS USE FOR ANXIETY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN THE UNITED STATES"
Francesca Palese – "TARGETING NAAA COUNTERS DOPAMINE NEURON LOSS AND SYMPTOM PROGRESSION IN A MOUSE MODEL OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE"
Kiesha Wilson – "TREATMENT OF SEB-INDUCED ARDS WITH CBD AMELIORATES FATAL INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE"
ICRS2021 Awardees and Prizewinners
William A. Devane Young Investigator Award: Robert LaPrairie, Ph.D. (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Mechoulam Award: José Javier Fernandez-Ruiz, Ph.D. (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Pre-Doctoral Presentation Prizewinners:
Samantha Ayoub – "THE EFFECT OF OLEOYL ALANINE ON OPIOID WITHDRAWAL BEHAVIOURS IN MALE SPRAGUE DAWLEY RATS"
Nicholas Dopkins – "CANNABIDIOL TREATMENT IN EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS INHIBITS PRODUCTION OF THE PRO INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE IL-1Β"
Radka Kočvarová – "PHYTOCANNABINOIDS FOR TREATING NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE, DYSLIPIDEMIA, AND TYPE 2 DIABETES"
Charlotte Piette – "THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM GATES FAST LEARNING"
Veronika Kondev – Billy Martin ICRS pre-Doctoral Prize – "UTILIZING A NOVEL ENDOCANNABINOID BIOSENSOR TO ELUCIDATE CIRCUIT-SPECIFIC ENDOCANNABINOID REGULATION OF VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS-BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA"
Post-Doctoral Presentation Prizewinners:
Elizabeth Cairns – "THE EXPRESSION OF COMPONENTS OF THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM PREDICTS PATIENT SURVIVAL IN MELANOMA BUT CANNABINOIDS LACK SELECTIVITY AS POTENTIAL THERAPEUTICS"
Bogna Ignatowska-Jankowska – "DISTINCT KINEMATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MAGL AND FAAH INHIBITION IN HIGH PRECISION 3D MOTION CAPTURE ANALYSIS OF FREELY BEHAVING MICE"
Elena Martin-Garcia – "NEUROBIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE TO CANNABIS ADDICTION"
Kiesha Wilson – "TREATMENT OF SEB-INDUCED ARDS WITH CBD AMELIORATES FATAL INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE"
Catharine Mielnik – J. Michael Walker ICRS Post-Doctoral Prize – "MONOACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE (MAGL), BUT NOT FATTY AMIDE ACID HYDROLASE, INHIBITION EXACERBATES HYPERDOPAMINERGIC PHENOTYPES IN DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER-KNOCKOUT (DATKO) MICE"
ICRS2021 Student Presentation Prizes - Steve Alexander, PhD. [5m22s, Vimeo] ↓
Congratulations to all our awardees and prizewinners. Best with your continued research!
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