Recent News

November 2023: Integrating public health and translational basic science to address challenges of xylazine adulteration of fentanyl https://www.nature.com/npp/podcast

Congratulations to Mary Beth Matocha and Violet Newhart for their successful poster presentations at the SURES 2023 poster session!

Congratulations to Tyrone for his travel award from NIDA! And congratulations to Tyrone for giving his first talk at CPDD!

Khatri, S., Sadek, S., Kendrick Jr., P.T., Bondy, E.O., Hong, M., Pauss, S., Luo, D., Prisinzano, T., Dunn, K.E., Marusich, J.A., Beckmann, J.S., Hinds Jr., T.D., Gipson, C.D. (in press). Xylazine co-use suppresses fentanyl consumption during self-administration and induces a unique sex-specific withdrawal syndrome that is naloxone-resistant in rats. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology Xylazine, a […]

Congratulations to Safiyah Sadek for winning the Sandra J. Legan Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience based on her work on the xylazine/fentanyl project!

Tyrone was selected out of more than 270 applications to receive the 2023 CPDD NIDA Women & Sex/Gender Junior Investigator Travel Award. This is an incredible achievement, congrats Tyrone!

Shailesh Khatri and Tyrone Kendrick gave incredible presentations at the 2023 Substance Use Research Event!

This summer, Ashley White, a MD/PhD student will begin her work in the lab funded through the Professional Student Mentored Research Fellowship Program from the University of Kentucky CCTS. We also welcome Ashley Craig, a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky with a major in Neuroscience. Ashley was recently awarded the NIDA Summer Undergraduate […]