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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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.
Key Impact
Notable for bridging psilocybin process chemistry and cGMP manufacture with clinical investigation into psilocybin's pharmacokinetics and therapeutic potential for primary headache disorders.
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Affiliations
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
academicThe University of Wisconsin-Madison Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances is dedicated to exploring the scientific, historical, and cultural aspects of psychoactive substances, focusing on psychedelics.
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Non-ProfitThe Alexander Shulgin Research Institute (ASRI) was founded in 2021 by Dr. Nicholas Cozzi, Dr. Paul Daley, and the late Ann Shulgin, continuing the legacy of chemist Alexander Shulgin. The institute maintains the Shulgin Vault — a repository of over 500 compounds synthesized by Shulgin and ASRI scientists. Lead candidate ASR-3001 (5-MeO-iPALT) is an orally active, fast-acting tryptamine with a mild internal psychedelic profile and no visual hallucinations, near IND-ready for psychiatric disorders. ASR-2001 is a non-hallucinogenic compound producing mental clarity.
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