Timothy Paul Tully (born 1954)[1] is an American neurobiologist who is the chief scientific officer and executive vice president for research & development at the San Diego–based biotechnology company Dart Neuroscience.
[3] With the support of billionaire Ken Dart, he is also attempting to create a pharmaceutical drug that would give its takers a photographic memory, which has been dubbed "Viagra for the brain" by the media.
[8] In 1995, Tully and his CSHL colleague Jerry Yin made headlines when they genetically engineered a Drosophila fly that displayed the equivalent of a photographic memory.
[7][9] Through his company Helicon, Tully subsequently began working to develop a drug to raise levels of the CREB protein, in the hope that it would improve memory in humans.
At the time, Tully suggested that it could also be used by healthy people to help them remember how to play a new musical instrument or speak a new language.