Header Image: Reggie Gaudino, Ph.D. Director Cannabis Research Institute
Nearly a year and a half after it was announced, the Cannabis Research Institute is getting operations underway in Chicago, with the goal of studying, among other things, how marijuana could help or harm people.
The institute’s leader hopes to break new ground in finding medical uses for cannabis, possibly for the treatment of cancer. Researchers also can help with the creation of a new state reference lab to check for accuracy in the testing of commercial pot. And they could track down a virus that threatens to ruin crops.
The research group is making use of a new lab in a former COVID-19 testing facility in the Illinois Medical Center campus on the West Side, harnessing DNA sequencing equipment formerly used to test for COVID-19.
But at least for now, the institute’s lab will not be in its planned new office. The headquarters for its parent organization, the University of Illinois System’s Discovery Partners Institute, is proposed for vacant land on The 78, the 62-acre South Loop site
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