Nicholas Cozzi

Emeritus Scientist and Educator in Pharmacology; Co-Founder, President, and Director of Pharmacology at the Alexander Shulgin Research Institute

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Papers

9 publications

Trials

0 clinical trials

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Research Footprint

Nicholas Cozzi appears in 9 tracked papers (2017–2024), most studied alongside Psilocybin and DMT, across Safety & Risk Management, Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Development and Headache Disorders (Cluster & Migraine).

Most-cited paper: Pharmacokinetics of Escalating Doses of Oral Psilocybin in Healthy Adults (186 citations).

Frequent co-authors: Deepak Cyril D’Souza, Emmanuelle Schindler and Andrew Sewell.

Background & Research

Nicholas Cozzi is a clinical researcher working at the intersection of psychedelic drug development and clinical therapeutics. His published and in‑progress work spans process development for psilocybin manufacture — including direct phosphorylation approaches that enable optimised cGMP kilogram‑scale production — through to translational pharmacology and early‑phase clinical research. Cozzi has contributed to pharmacokinetic characterisations of escalating oral psilocybin doses in healthy adults and to experimental studies assessing subjective effects and tolerability at higher doses.

On the clinical side, Cozzi has been involved in controlled investigations of psilocybin for primary headache disorders, including randomised, double‑blind, placebo‑controlled trials testing low‑dose pulse regimens for cluster headache suppression and exploratory studies of psilocybin's migraine‑suppressing effects. His portfolio reflects a translational focus: enabling reliable drug supply and quality control while designing and executing mechanistic and therapeutic trials to inform clinical utility, dosing strategies and safety profiles of psilocybin in neurological and psychiatric indications.

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