Yating Zheng, Ph.D. Student (Courtney Lab), was recently selected as a Major Symposium speaker for the American Association of Immunologists’ (AAI) IMMUNOLOGY2024™ meeting to be held in Chicago May 3-7, 2024.

The Department of Pharmacology is delighted to share that Deb Paris has accepted the offer to become the new Chief Department Administrator of Pharmacology. Please join us in welcoming her!

Benjamin Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate (Satin Lab), successfully defends his dissertation

Congratulations to Livia, Cristian, and Kassidy!

Congratulations to Robert Goldsmith, Ph.D. Candidate (Brody Lab), on successfully defending his dissertation.

Subhash Arya, Ph.D., Postdoc Fellow in the Parent Lab, has recently been selected as a recipient of the 2024 Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award.

Congratulations to Juan Valentín-Goyco (Ph.D. candidate, Auchus Lab) on successfully defending his dissertation titled "Mechanistic and Pharmacological Studies of 11β-hydroxylase (P450 11B1) and Aldosterone Synthase (P450 11B2)".

Congratulations, Dr. Brody!

Congratulations to John Traynor, Ph.D., on his new role as Secretary/Treasurer-Elect for ASPET. His term will begin on July 1, 2024. Read more here: https://www.aspet.org/aspet/about-us/aspet-council/2024-aspet-election-results?fbclid=IwAR0NrUzI6xCqJ73u9nTugfsukTMAMs_Ha_ztwo4dDOsYw7lbYdMds9_JgHE

Elizabeth Jaeckel's (Birdsong Lab) paper, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, was chosen to be a featured article.

Intravenous (IV) ketamine helped relieve the depression symptoms of half of the veterans who received it at VA hospitals.

A new study links two autism-associated genes together for the first time, potentially revealing a mechanism behind brain changes seen in people with autism.

Catherine Demery-Poulos and Krista Goerger have joined the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

David Jones, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, has been awarded the Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Grant.

Opioid painkillers prescribed by surgeons have gone down in recent years but the decline has slowed since the pandemic