Prof. Dr. Bankole A. Johnson
Professor Bankole A. Johnson
Physician, Neuroscientist, Regenerative Medicine Specialist, Psychiatrist, & Addictionologist
Prof. Dr. Bankole A. Johnson
DSc · MD · MBChB · MPhil · FRCPsych · DFAPA an internationally acclaimed neuroscientist, regenerative medicine physician, neuropsychiatrist, and addiction brain specialist whose discoveries, made over 45 years and 100+ global patents, now anchor a private practice in Miami built around one idea: Time Travel in Medicine.
Neuroscientist . Psychiatrist . Founder . Author . Speaker
Professor
Bankole A. Johnson
DSc · MD · MBChB · MPhil · FRCPsych · DFAPA an internationally acclaimed addiction brain scientist whose discoveries, made over 45 years and 100+ global patents, now anchor a private practice in Miami built around one idea: Time Travel in Medicine.
Not Just the CV
Six Things You Wouldn't Guess
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Founded on Soup, Not Capital
Adial Pharmaceuticals' earliest meetings ran on little more than cream-of-mushroom soup and a molecular hypothesis nobody would fund yet.
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His Kids Rang the Bell
When Adial listed on Nasdaq in 2018, his children stood beside him at the bell, the same clock-and-departure motif that sent him to medical school decades earlier.
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He Composes Music
"Six Rings" is a real 47-minute piece he architected mathematically, an eight-pulse stochastic structure — then handed to a pianist to improvise across during the pandemic.
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He Interviewed Killers for Fiction
The Dragons novel cycle grew out of long forensic-psychiatric interviews conducted in prisons with people convicted of capital crimes.
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He Designed a Watch, Sort Of
K-Fit was a wearable concept years ahead of its category, linking heart rate, sleep and facial cues to a person's own baseline, before "affective computing" was a phrase.
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Emmy-Winning Cameo
HBO's "Addiction" documentary, which profiled his topiramate research and two of his patients, went on to win a Governors Award, a special Emmy.
Neuroscientist . Psychiatrist . Founder . Author . Speaker
Professor
Bankole A. Johnson
DSc · MD · MBChB · MPhil · FRCPsych · DFAPA an internationally acclaimed addiction brain scientist whose discoveries, made over 45 years and 100+ global patents, now anchor a private practice in Miami built around one idea: Time Travel in Medicine.
45+
Years in Science
300+
Peer-Reviewed Papers
100+
Global Patents
over 18,000
Citations
4
Chairmanships
Sole inventor of record on Adial Pharmaceuticals' AD04 patent estate · Founder of 4 ventures spanning concierge medicine, biopharmaceuticals, regenerative science & physician education
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Real, published interviews and segments from expert testimony to national news to long-form podcast conversation.
Battling the Opioid Crisis
Different Brains w/ Prof. Bankole Johnson of U. Maryland & HBO's "Addiction"
On Merck's New COVID-19 Pill
NewsNation PRIME national television commentary
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