Thomas Prisinzano
Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
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Research Footprint
Thomas Prisinzano appears in 5 tracked papers (2011–2020), most studied alongside Salvia Divinorum, Ayahuasca and LSD, across Healthy Volunteers, Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Development.
Most-cited paper: Dose-related effects of salvinorin A in humans: dissociative, hallucinogenic, and memory effects (134 citations).
Frequent co-authors: Roland Griffiths, Matthew Johnson and Katherine MacLean.
Background & Research
Thomas E. Prisinzano is a Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. His research focuses on medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, including the design and study of salvinorin A analogues and kappa-opioid receptor ligands. He has been recognized by the university as a 2024–25 University Research Professor.
Key Impact
He is a leading medicinal chemist and psychopharmacology researcher whose work on salvinorin A helped establish key human and receptor-level findings in psychedelic/dissociative science.
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