Lumír Ondřej Hanuš
| Lumír Ondřej Hanuš | |
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| Born |
November 20, 1947 Olomouc, Czechoslovakia (today the Czech Republic) |
| Fields | Cannabis research, coca leaves research |
| Institutions |
Palacký University of Olomouc Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Alma mater | Palacký University of Olomouc |
| Known for | Isolation and description of Anandamide |
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Lumír Ondřej Hanuš (Hebrew: לומיר הנוש) is a Czech analytic chemist and leading authority in the field of cannabis research. In 1992, he and William Anthony Devane isolated and first described the structure of anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitter.
Lumír Hanuš was born in 1947 in Olomouc, in what was then Czechoslovakia. He is a distant kindred of Czech chemist Josef Hanuš (1872–1955).
In 1966, Hanuš entered the Faculty of Science of Palacký University of Olomouc as a student. In 1970 professor Zdeněk Krejčí of the Faculty of Medicine's Department of hygiene and epidemiology (where the anti-bacterial effects of cannabis were described in 1955) needed an aid, and the undergraduate Hanuš started to work as Krejčí's assistant in the research of cannabis and hashish in December of that year. There, Hanuš also met professors Jan Kabelík and František Šantavý, who, together with Krejčí, laid down the foundations of the research of cannabis and its curative effects. Hanuš grew cannabis for research purposes on two fields in the Research Institute of Vegetable Growing and Breeding in Olomouc from 1971. The extracts were also used at the Faculty Hospital Olomouc as a cure for aphthous ulcer, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and pressure ulcers.
Hanuš graduated as Master of Science in 1972 and continued academic career in Olomouc. In 1974 he obtained Doctorate in Science in Olomouc. He pursued his academic and research activities at Olomouc University until 1990. Hanuš also took part in research at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and continued post-graduate research study at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Brno (today Masaryk University). In years 1978–1979 he worked as research associate of University of Mississippi, focusing not only on cannabis, but also on coca leaves. He became associate professor in organic chemistry in Olomouc in 1994 and obtained Doctorate of Sciences in pharmaceutical chemistry at Charles University in 1995.
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