The Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D. Professorship Fund in Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-Being

ROLAND R. GRIFFITHS, PhD, was 50 years on the Johns Hopkins faculty. His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories was on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs, including extensive research with sedative-hypnotics, caffeine, and novel mood-altering drugs.

Dr. Griffiths was author of over 400 scientific publications and trained more than 60 postdoctoral research fellows.

He was a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, to numerous pharmaceutical companies in the development of new psychotropic drugs, and to the World Health Organization as a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence.

The Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D., Professorship Fund In Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-Being is an endowed fund to be held in perpetuity to support a professorship and to establish a world class, rigorous, empirical program of research with psychedelic substances to advance understanding of well-being and spirituality in the service of promoting human flourishing for generations to come.