Vignesh Ravichandran

Vignesh is a clinical researcher with experience supporting psychedelic-assisted therapy clinical trials through the various stages of the clinical trial development process.

He is passionate about supporting efforts to better characterize the effects of these potentially transformative tools, and increase access to them under the western framework of care. He is also currently a student of the Integral Counseling Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and plans to work as a therapist in the future.

Vignesh completed his bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Washington, and went on to work as a Medical Affairs Program Specialist for Lykos Therapeutics for 3 years, helping to manage their Investigator-Initiated Trial program. Here, he supported a variety of independent MDMA-Assisted Therapy studies for a number of mental health indications. Vignesh now brings this experience to Open Mind Therapeutics, where he will be supporting the team as a Clinical Research Coordinator.