Zafar

Rayyan

Dr Rayyan Zafar - Dr Rayyan Zafar PhD MRSB. Zafar is a UKRI postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Psychedelic Research and Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London and senior researcher at Drug Science. He works alongside Professor David Nutt a global leading psychiatrist and drug scientist. His research focuses on understanding the brain mechanisms of addiction and mental health disorders and exploring how drugs such as psychedelics work in the brain and how they can be used to treat individuals with mental health and addictions. He is currently leading the world's first clinical and mechanistic study of Psilocybin therapy in gambling addiction. In addition to his work at Imperial College London, Zafar has acted on scientific advisory boards for companies developing drugs in the medical psychedelic and cannabis space.