Marc Daniel Ferger

Physician-Scientist 🇩🇪 ➡️ 🇨🇦
child + adolescent psychiatry
cannabinoids | psychopharmacology | clinical trials

[Marc Daniel Ferger @MarcDFerger]

Excited to be part of the @acamh team 🥳 If you are interested in Child and Adolescent Mental Health- this is the place to be!

[Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health @acamh]

Welcome to @MarcDFerger our new ACAMH Ambassador! Marc is a medical student from Germany, a research fellow at the Group of Biological Child & Adolescent Psychiatry @UKKoeln, and the 2022 ACAMH Undergraduate Clinical Trainee of the Year. Check out more at https://t.co/RZfH3hdWpZ

[Leah Mayo @MayoOnTheBrain]

So many reasons to celebrate with this team this year, but I'm most grateful for how fun they keep this job🥳

[Abdel Abdellaoui @dr_appie]

New @Nature study maps the genetic risk shared across psychiatric disorders.

In News & Views, I discuss what it means when that genetic risk overlaps with normal traits, including education-related outcomes.

News & Views: https://t.co/Y4mP2wyBEj
Study: https://t.co/RnrnGXolMr

[JAMA Psychiatry @JAMAPsych]

Neuropsychiatric disorders impose a substantial burden on individuals and societies worldwide.

📢 This Special Communications reflects the broad consensus of experts to advance the agenda for precision psychiatry.

https://t.co/HD9NEyDc33

[Leah Mayo @MayoOnTheBrain]

The @pact_lab has been celebrating some major wins recently -

Last Thursday, @abby_lunge successfully defended her MSc 🎓
Yesterday, @AnaDeutsch8 advanced to PhD candidacy 🏆

Feeling super grateful to work alongside this team of all-stars🤩

[JAMA Psychiatry @JAMAPsych]

"We therefore issue an urgent call to action: psychiatric associations and guideline committees should explicitly evaluate and consider #GLP-1RAs as a strategy to manage psychotropic-induced weight gain."

Learn more in this Viewpoint: https://t.co/5RRn1m5Edd

[Leah Mayo @MayoOnTheBrain]

Congrats to @pact_lab postdoc Ryann Tansey on receiving an @ACNPorg Travel Award! 🥳 #ACNP2026

[Sara Liane Kroll @Kroll_SaraLiane]

Super proud of my PhD student's first paper published in @PsychopharmEBPS We found dysfunction stress response to social rejection of the #endocannabinoid 2-AG in individuals with chronic #opioid use #OUD
Check it out:
https://t.co/9aKKdRxVCu

[Neuropsychopharmacology @npp_journal]

🎉 Congratulations to our Social Media Editor, Dr. Leah Mayo (@MayoOnTheBrain), on being named to Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40!

Her research on stress, psychedelics, cannabinoids & mental health continues to make an impact — in and beyond the lab

🔗 https://t.co/boyXFlPE8d

[Jibran Khokhar @DrJKhokhar]

Excited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe (from @JKhokharLab) published in @molpsychiatry : Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals: https://t.co/i4q6wS2R5A CADM2, now also for cannabis use frequency!

[Leah Mayo @MayoOnTheBrain]

Congrats to @pact_lab PhD student @AnaDeutsch8 on her 1st first-author paper from the lab!🎉

She explored how MDMA & methamphetamine impact cortisol, endocannabinoids, & BDNF levels in healthy humans + how this relates to the subjective drug experience👇

https://t.co/MyPdOZ4u4R

[Sachin Patel @SachinPatelLab]

Looking for a comprehensive primer on how endocannabinoids modulate affective behavior and stress adaptation….

We got you covered with our new Review Article ⁦@NatRevNeurosci⁩ with (soon to be defending) ⁦@NiharikaLoomba⁩ 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 https://t.co/koOsmtuwN4

[Leah Mayo @MayoOnTheBrain]

Heading home after an AMAZING #EBPS2025 where @pact_lab was well-represented w/ 3 talks (incl. @AnaDeutsch8 1st talk as a PhD student), 2 IDEA panelists & 4 posters (incl poster winner @AubinKeira) 🤩

Now for a [much needed] record-breaking 3 months without conference travel ✈️

[Abdalla Albeely, PhD @A_Albeely]

Wow It was a wonderful experience cochairing the #CannabinoidsGRS2025 this year alongside Gavin.
I have learned so much but also really enjoyed getting in touch with wonderful young scientists in the #Cannabinoids community.

Absolutely grateful 🥹

[connorhaggarty.bsky.social @ConnorHaggarty]

Incredible time at the Cannabinoid GRC! @DrJKhokhar & Cece Hilliard knocked it out of the park! It was an honor to be discussion lead for the GRS session on therapeutics too. As always, so proud of my friend/mentor @MayoOnTheBrain, chosen as the 2029 chair w/@RyanMcPickle

[Leah Mayo @MayoOnTheBrain]

Thanks to @DrJKhokhar & @CeceHillard for another fantastic Cannabinoid GRC! The #cannabinerd crew is unparalleled & I couldn't be more excited for the opportunity to organize the 2029 meeting with @RyanMcPickle

[Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) @HotchkissBrain]

Congratulations to Dr. Valerie Taylor, MD, PhD, Mathison Centre and Hotchkiss Brain Institute member, on being elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS)! 🔗Learn more about Dr. Taylor and the Fellowship: https://t.co/Sx1d4mKtzb

[Jibran Khokhar @DrJKhokhar]

And just like that #CannabinoidGRC2025 comes to an end! Big thank you to my co-chair @CeceHillard and all the attendees and speakers! Congrats to @mayoonthebrain and @ryanmcpickle on their selection as chairs for the 2029 meeting!

[Jibran Khokhar @DrJKhokhar]

Wonderful session on Cannabis, Trauma and Society with @AZAAllsop, @anahitabassir, @ed_chesney, Gavin Petrie and Nate Harnett with discussant extraordinaire Debra Karhson! #CannabinoidGRC2025

[Leah Mayo @MayoOnTheBrain]

Wishing all the #Cannabinerd trainees a Happy Cannabinoid GRS kickoff!

Grateful to see @pact_lab well represented - with talks from Ryann Tansey & @abby_lunge, @MarcDFerger as a discussion leader, & Gavin Petrie as GRS co-Chair (and a later speaker at the GRC) 💪

[IACAPAP @IACAPAP]

𝗜𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗣 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 – 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻! We are excited to announce that the IACAPAP Education Travel Grant 2026 will officially open for application on 15 August 2025!
https://t.co/QotQ14SYCO