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[boc_heading html_element=”h3″ color=”#136f8d” margin_bottom=”8px” css_classes=”no_text_transform_letter_spacing_negative” font_size=”33px”]Alaina M. Jaster, PhD[/boc_heading][boc_heading html_element=”h3″ color=”#ADADAD” subheading=”yes” margin_top=”20px” margin_bottom=”8px” font_size=”19px”]Co-Chair, Science Policy Committee[/boc_heading][boc_divider divider_width=”60px” divider_color=”#eeeeee”]

Alaina M. Jaster, PhD is a neuropharmacologist focused on understanding underlying mechanisms of addiction and neuropsychiatric disorders. She received her PhD in Pharmacology & Toxicology from Virginia Commonwealth University where work focused on the molecular targets and mechanisms of psychedelics and their effects on opioid-drug seeking in rodent models.  She is the co-founder of Psychedelic Brain Science and Your Brain on Science, a website and podcast venture aimed at educating the public about psychedelic science. Her current research as a postdoc at Wayne State University focuses on translational methods to assess behavioral and neurological changes associated with trauma as well as use and perceptions of psychedelics in adolescents.

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