David Nutt

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David Nutt
Nutt in 2020
Professor David Nutt, February 2020
Born (1951-04-16) 16 April 1951 (age 73)
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
EducationBristol Grammar School
Alma materDowning College, Cambridge
Known forFounding Drug Science[1]
Controversial removal from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs[2]
Performing the first MRI of a human brain under the influence of LSD[3]
Ecstasy controversy[4]
Scientific career
InstitutionsDrug Science
Imperial College London
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
University of Bristol
Guy's Hospital
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)
Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD)
The European Brain Council
ThesisThe effect of convulsions and drugs on seizure susceptibility in rats (1982)
David Nutt's voice
from the BBC programme The Life Scientific (BBC Radio 4), 18 September 2012[5]
Websitedrugscience.org.uk

David John Nutt (born 16 April 1951) is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep.[6] He is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs.[7] In 2019 he co-founded the company GABAlabs and its subsidiary SENTIA Spirits which research and market alternatives to alcohol. Until 2009, he was a professor at the University of Bristol heading their Psychopharmacology Unit.[8] Since then he has been the Edmond J Safra chair in Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences there.[9] Nutt was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, and was President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.[10][11][12]

  1. ^ "Drug Science founded". drugscience.org.uk.
  2. ^ "Johnson 'misled MPs over adviser'". BBC News. 8 November 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  3. ^ Sample, Ian (11 April 2016). "LSD's impact on the brain revealed in groundbreaking images". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference equasy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "David Nutt". The Life Scientific. 18 September 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  6. ^ Science and Technology Select Committee (18 July 2006). Drug classification: making a hash of it? (PDF) (Report). House of Commons. p. Ev 1. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
  7. ^ "The Truth About Drugs". drugscience.org.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Professor David Nutt". University of Bristol. Archived from the original on 31 October 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2009.
  9. ^ "Home - Professor David Nutt DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FSB, FMedSci". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  10. ^ "David J Nutt". The Royal Institution. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
  11. ^ David Nutt publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  12. ^ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/tls/tls_20120918-0930a.mp3 David Nutt on The Life Scientific with Jim Al-Khalili, September 2012, BBC Radio 4