Congratulations to our 2021 Mentoring Award winners! They were honored at the 9th NIDA Poster Day and Mentoring Awards ceremony on May 19, 2021. From left to right: Huilng Wang, MD, PhD – Diversity Mentoring Award; David Reiner, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow Mentoring Award; Bruce Hope, PhD – Investigator Mentoring Award; and Jeremiah Bertz, PhD – Staff Scientist Mentoring Award.
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2021 NIDA IRP Mentoring Awards
Congratulations to our 2021 Mentoring Award winners! They were honored at the 9th NIDA Poster Day and Mentoring Awards ceremony on May 19, 2021. From left to right: Huilng Wang, MD, PhD – Diversity Mentoring Award; David Reiner, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow Mentoring Award; Bruce Hope, PhD – Investigator Mentoring Award; and Jeremiah Bertz, PhD – Staff Scientist Mentoring Award.
2021 NIDA IRP FARE Winners
Congratulations to our 2021 FARE (Fellows Award for Research Excellence) winners: Harsh Deshpande, Ewa Galaj, Evan Hart, Therese Ku, Brenton Laing, Renata Marchette, Adrienne McGinn, Jorge Miranda Barrientos, and David Reiner. They will each receive a $1500 travel stipend to attend a scientific meeting to present their research and gave a talk at the virtual… [Read More]
Jingfeng Zhou, Ph.D. Has Received the NIH Pathway to Independence Grant Award
Dr. Zhou is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Geoffrey Schoenbaum at the NIDA IRP where he studies neural circuit mechanisms of animal behavior and cognition. Using in vivo electrophysiology as a primary tool, his research attempts to map neural dynamics embedded in the neural population activities to the hidden cognitive variables… [Read More]
Amy Hauck Newman appointed to lead NIDA’s Intramural Research Program
Amy Hauck Newman, Ph.D., has been appointed the Scientific Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) Intramural Research Program (IRP) in Baltimore. NIDA is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Newman has served as NIDA’s IRP Acting Scientific Director for the past two years. She is also Chief of NIDA’s… [Read More]
Lorenzo Leggio Named 2020 Recipient of Jacob P. Waletzky Award by Society for Neuroscience
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has named Lorenzo Leggio, M.D., Ph.D. as the 2020 recipient of the Jacob P. Waletzky Award. The award, supported by the Waletzky Award Prize Fund and the Waletzky Family, is given to a young scientist whose independent research has led to significant conceptual and empirical contributions to the understanding of… [Read More]
Rajtarun Madangopal and Marco Venniro Awarded Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator NARSAD Grants
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation has awarded 2020 Young Investigator Grants to NIDA IRP staff members Rajtarun Madangopal and Marco Venniro. BBRF Young Investigator Grants provide each scientist with up to $35,000 per year for two years totaling $70,000 to enable promising investigators to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent… [Read More]
NIDA IRP Staff Members Honored at 2020 NIH Director’s Awards
NIH Director’s Award: Yavin Shaham, NIDA For the development of novel animal models that have led to a paradigm shift in research on behavior and brain mechanisms of drug addiction. Ruth Kirchstein Mentoring Award: Marisela Morales, NIDA For exemplary performance while demonstrating significant leadership, skill, and ability in serving as a mentor. NIDA Staff members… [Read More]
Ayesha Sengupta awarded Women in Learning Research Grant
The Women in Learning Awards Committee has selected Ayesha Sengupta as the recipient of the 2020 “Where there’s a WIL there’s a way” Research Grant. This is the first award of its kind from WIL. It was designed to honor one outstanding yet underrepresented graduate student or post-doctoral fellow in the field of Learning &… [Read More]
Dr. Eliot Gardner receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Cannabinoid Research Society.
NIDA Investigator Dr. Eliot Gardner has been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Cannabinoid Research Society (ICRS). The ICRS is a non-political, non-religious organization dedicated to scientific research in all fields of the cannabinoids, ranging from biochemical, chemical and physiological studies of the endogenous cannabinoid system to studies of the abuse potential… [Read More]
