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FEATURED
The Lambert Initiative: a 10 year retrospective (opens in a new tab)⁠
22 Jan 2026
Professor Iain McGregor gave this 30 minute presentation at the 2025 United in Compassion conference in Brisbane outlining the main achievements of the Lambert Initiative research program into medicinal cannabis and how it is evolving into the future with a range of new interventions to treat epilepsy, anxiety and insomnia and which extend lifespan and healthspan.
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Independent MP Alex Greenwich says he takes medicinal cannabis as calls grow for reform (opens in a new tab)⁠
10 Sep 2025
This ABC News article reports on a forum at the NSW Parliament at which Prof McGregor spoke together with various MPs and stakeholders to call for an exemption for NSW medicinal cannabis patients to allow them to drive legally with THC in their saliva
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MEDIA
Could cannabis and psychedelics help treat eating disorders?
1 Jul 2025
Sydney Morning Herald article quotes Prof McGregor around our MED-FED survey of drug use in eating disorders published in JAMA Network Open
MEDIA
Can Cannabis Reverse Ageing? (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jun 2025
The WeedsPodcast featuring Jeremy Buckingham MLC interviewing Prof Iain McGregor
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Soccer heading can alter brain chemistry, new research shows (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jun 2025
Our study of the effects of soccer heading on the brain was featured on ABC TV news and on-line
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MEDIA
Medicinal cannabis prescribing practices under scrutiny after scripts issued 'every 4 minutes' (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 May 2025
Prof McGregor featured on an ABC 730 report story around medicinal cannabis prescribing practices
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MEDIA
New treatments to put insomnia to bed (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Apr 2025
Initiative clinical trials involving cannabinoid effects in insomnia patients were featured in this news article published in Nature magazine
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MEDIA
Cannabis reform: reaping more than you can sow (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jan 2025
Release describing the results of our CAN-ACT study of cannabis cultivation in ACT following decriminalisation
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MEDIA
Sleepy cannabis': first objective study to show cannabinol increases sleep (opens in a new tab)⁠
12 Nov 2024
Release picked up by many international media outlets, around our study of the sleep-inducing effects of cannabinol (CBN) in rats
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AWARDS AND PRIZES
Excellence in Clinical Research Award , International Alliance for Cannabis-Based Medicines
1 Jan 2024
MEDIA
GPs prescribing cannabis could be just what the doctor ordered (opens in a new tab)⁠
20 Feb 2018
Sydney Morning Herald op-ed on RACP perspective pieve on medicinal cannabis
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MEDIA
Kinoxis Therapeutics launched to develop novel ant-addiction drugs (opens in a new tab)⁠
15 Feb 2018
The University of Sydney media release on a new oxytocin-simulating drug developed by University of Sydney researchers
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MEDIA
Why so few Australians are using medicinal cannabis on prescription (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Oct 2017
Sydney Morning Herald op-ed on the Federal Medicinal Cannabis scheme
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MEDIA
Medicinal cannabis (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Aug 2016
ABC Catalyst show featuring Iain McGregor and the Lambert Initiative team
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Medicinal value of cannabis (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jan 2016
Professor Iain McGregor discusses the medicinal value of cannabis. interview on the Channel 9 TV show 60 Minutes relating to the therapeutic value of cannabis and cannabinoids.
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Oxytocin in social behaviour and as a possible treatment for addiction (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jan 2016
ABC TV show Catalyst explores the role of the neuropeptide Oxytocin in social behaviour and as a possible treatment for addiction, featuring Prof Iain McGregor
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MEDIA
Businessman donates record 33 million to medicinal marijuana research (opens in a new tab)⁠
12 Jun 2015
Story covered on ABC News, again with video footage.
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Sydney family donates 33 million to medicinal cannabis research (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jan 2015
News story (including video footage) regarding the historic Lambert donation to the University of Sydney (researchers McGregor, Allsop, Lintzeris).
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The Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jan 2015
McGregor And Allsop Featured In Sydney Alumni Magazine Article in the Sydney Alumni Magazine on The Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics.
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MEDIA
Sydney scientists hope for pot boom (opens in a new tab)⁠
28 Nov 2014
Allsop and Iain McGregor comment on research into medical cannabis in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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MEDIA
Meet the people at each end of an illegal medical marijuana supply chain (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jan 2014
McGregor appeared on ABC TV's 7.30 Report in a story about medicinal marijuana including usage in treating seizures and nausea, and problems posed by self-medication using �street cannabis�.
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FELLOWSHIP
NHMRC, Principal Research Fellow
1 Jan 2014 - 1 Jan 2019
MEDIA
Drug experts meet in Hobart (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jan 2013
McGregor provides the keynote address to Comorbidity Symposium in Hobart
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AWARDS AND PRIZES
European Behavioural Pharmacology Society best paper award
1 Jan 2013
MEDIA
OECD says Australians take too many pills and must tackle nation's obesity problem (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Jan 2013
Article in the Sydney Morning Herald with interview with Iain McGregor on the rise in anti-depressant use in Australia
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