LATEST NEWS

April 9, 2025
Congratulations Kailey Chung in successfully defend the thesis with honors in the Molecular, Biology and Biochemistry Undergrad Research Program.

January 24, 2025
Congratulations on the New Jersey Health Foundation Award for the WAVE1-Alzheimer’s disease project.

January 7, 2025
Congratulations to our team for our new review article about WAVE and its implication in developmental and adulthood brain disorders. Now available in Pubmed

December 12, 2024
We were honored to host Dr. Akinori Nish’s visit and his seminar entitled “Exploring mechanisms controlling dopamine neurotransmission relevant to neuropsychiatric functions.”

September 27, 2024
Dr. Per Svenningsson visited Rutgers University and presented the BHI Plenary Seminar titled “The role of p11, serotonin and trace amine GPCRs in neuropsychiatric states.”

May 16, 2024
Congratulations to our team for our new research article about the roles of Ahnak in stress resilience and the antidepressant actions of ketamine. Now available in Pubmed

July 7, 2023
A big welcome to our new Research Associate, Yu Young Jeong! We’re happy to have you join the lab team!

May 1, 2023
We want to welcome to the lab our new Postdoc, Clara Berdasco! We’re very excited to have you!

April 24, 2023
We would like to welcome our new Research Assistant Joseph Lepore, a Masters Student at Rutgers University, to the team! We’re happy to have you!

June 15, 2022
Congratulations to Tho Lai, one of our research assistants, who will be working in industrial research after he receives his Master’s degree in Public health this year. He has recently been hired as a research scientist for oncology translational research department at Bristol Myers Squibb pharmaceutical company. We wish you all the best!

May 17, 2022
Congratulations to Sindhura Nemani, one of our research assistants, who has recently accepted her offer to Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. We are very happy to see you achieve your goal!

March 15, 2021
Congrats to Junghee, our postdoc, on accepting a position to begin as a Senior Scientist at Encoded Therapeutics, where she’ll work on gene therapies for rare diseases. We’re so proud of you!

March 3, 2021
Big welcome to our new lab member, Tho Lai, a masters student at Rutgers. We’re excited to have you join our team!

February 26, 2021
Congrats to Michelle, one of our research assistants, who has accepted an offer to join University of Iowa’s MSTP, beginning as an MD/PhD student this fall.

January 25, 2021
Congrats to Pedro, one of our former research assistants, who has accepted an offer to join Mayo Clinic’s MSTP, beginning as an MD/PhD student this coming summer.

September 24, 2021
Congratulations to our team for our new publication on stress vulnerability and resilience! Now available in bioRxiv:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.14.459024v1