Cannabinoids as therapeutics / edited by R. Mechoulam, 2005.
Information trouvée : En poste à la Faculté de médecine, Hebrew University, Israël (en 2005).
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Information trouvée : Raphael Mechoulam (Hebrew: רפאל משולם, Bulgarian: Рафаел Мешулам; 5 November 1930
– 9 March 2023) was a Bulgarian-born Israeli organic chemist and professor of Medicinal
Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Mechoulam is best known
for his work (together with Y. Gaoni) in the isolation, structure elucidation and
total synthesis of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active principle of cannabis
and for the isolation and the identification of the endogenous cannabinoids anandamide
from the brain and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG) from peripheral organs together
with his students, post-doctoral students, and collaborators. Mechoulam received his
M.Sc. in biochemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1952), and his Ph.D.
at the Weizmann Institute, Reḥovot (1958), with a thesis on the chemistry of steroids.
After postdoctoral studies at the Rockefeller Institute, New York (1959–60), he was
on the scientific staff of the Weizmann Institute (1960–65), before moving to the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he became professor (1972) and Lionel Jacobson
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry from 1975. He was rector (1979–82) and pro-rector
(1983–85).