Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology. Pharmacist. Neuroscientist. Improving Mental Health One Experiment at the Time
North Chicago, IL, USA
Joined April 2021
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A 2023 study found that NIH grants supported the research behind 99.4% of all new pharmaceuticals approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the 2010s. Yes, our health & quality of life depends on the NIH. Read why: americanscientist.org/articl…“why-are-we-funding-this”
You don't know what you have until it's gone
nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opini…
Why leave money for medical research UNUSED when people are still waiting for cures???
aamc.org/about-us/mission-ar…
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My lab is hiring multiple PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. If you are in Canada and interested in neuroscience, regenerative medicine and stem cells, contact me. We are a productive group working on pathogenesis and treatment of multiple sclerosis. lnkd.in/eD3fkrp4is
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Absolutely unbelievable: the sitting HHS Secretary tried to pressure the Annals of Internal Medicine to retract the major Danish study of 1.2 M kids that found no harm from aluminum in vaccines. The journal refused. This isn’t just anti-science it is political interference.
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Dear all, call for proposals for next @OSSDtweets meeting, May 11-14 2026, in Kona, Hawaii, is now open! Deadline: October 10, 2025.
Pls send us your best proposals for symposia & individual talks!
Excited to be program chair w/ co-chair @dr_cindy_b
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Just hit 10-weeks delay on a non-competitive R01 renewal @NIH @NIMHgov - anyone else in this purgatory state (between heaven and hell)? Please share your non-competitive renewal stories - the good and the bad ones, thanks a lot!!! @drugmonkeyblog 🧠💰🔬
#FluorescenceFriday Beautiful Suprachiasmatic hypothalamic nuclei injected with AAV-ChannelRhodopsin-YFP in AVP-Cre rats. Vasopressin peptide in red (and magenta in the confocal image down right). My (failed) attempt to get a cover image 🧠🔬😋 Incredible SCN inj by Sue L. Olson
Our Lab @NIH sponsored work is out! cell.com/cell-reports/fullte…
🥳Vasopressin (AVP) excites BNST neurons via oxytocin receptor (not V1aR or V1bR)
🔬AVP excites CRF- and OTR-BNST neurons
🧠AVP inputs from SCN & SON excite BNST via OTR
🐁OTR-BNST neurons reduce anxiety in male rats
Our Lab @NIH sponsored work is out! cell.com/cell-reports/fullte…
🥳Vasopressin (AVP) excites BNST neurons via oxytocin receptor (not V1aR or V1bR)
🔬AVP excites CRF- and OTR-BNST neurons
🧠AVP inputs from SCN & SON excite BNST via OTR
🐁OTR-BNST neurons reduce anxiety in male rats
Big shout out to @PasilioValen, Walter Francesconi (co-first authors), Fulvia Berton, Susan L. Olson, Rachel Chudoba, Lorena M. Monroy and our collaborators Quirin Krabichler and Valery Grinevich for Five years of wonderful team work! 🥳
Joanna Dabrowska retweeted
The US and Germany share the same DNA. We are partners. We are friends. We are literally family.
Many citizens here in the US have ancestors hailing from Germany.
I just gave @POTUS a copy of his grandfather’s birth certificate. He was born in Kallstadt, Germany, in 1869.
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
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This budget proposes to cut the NIH by nearly half, a 40% reduction.
The NIH has been responsible for an extraordinary number of lifesaving cures and has been an economic power engine
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Ask Congress to save science.
#FundingScienceSavesLives
