Victor Acero is working on psychedelics for inflammation as a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. He also founded the Penn Society for Psychedelic Science.
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Victor Acero a Bioengineering PhD candidate in Dr. Kacy Cullen’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania. His thesis work is focused on the development of 3D tissue-engineered testbed for psychedelic compounds and assessing the therapeutic capacity for psychedelics to attenuate chronic inflammation in traumatic brain injury.
He is also a co-founder of the Penn Society for Psychedelic Science, which aims to build an multi-disciplinary academic community at Penn. HE also co-organized the Intercollegiate Psychedelic Summit (IPS) 2019 at UPenn, which hosted 8 speakers and 150 attendees. After IPS 2019, he co-founded the Intercollegiate Psychedelic Network (IPN), which has 22 chapters internationally, an academic psychedelic research organization. He is leading IPN efforts to establish a Research Experience for Undergraduates, which would facilitate professional development for students and increase minority representation.
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