Jordi Camí

Who is Jordi Camí?

Jordi Camí MD, PhD, is Professor of Pharmacology at Pompeu Fabra University, General Director of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, and Director of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation.

His main research activity has been focused, during more than 20 years, in the Neurosciences field, particularly in the Clinical pharmacology of Drug abuse. He specialized in the evaluation of the effects of the simultaneous consumption of different drugs in humans, and the clinical and pharmacological effects of MDMA. One of the first Detoxification Units for heroin addicts in Spain was created in 1981 at the Hospital del Mar of Barcelona under his responsibility. In 1988 he was the founder member and first President of the Spanish Society of Drug Addictions.

Between 1985 and 2005, he was the Director of the Municipal Institute of Medical Research in Barcelona, a university institute that he promoted and reorganized until it reached one of the first positions in biomedical research production in the health sector. During this time, he was the promoter of the official accreditation of the Antidoping Laboratory of IMIM by the International Olympic Committee for antidoping control.