Recent News

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 […]

Maher, Kipp, Leyrer-Jackson, Khatri, Bondy, Martinez, Beckmann, Hinds, Bimonte-Nelson, & Gipson (2022). Ovarian Hormones Regulate Nicotine Consumption and Accumbens Glutamatergic Plasticity in Female Rats. eNeuro, Jun 27;9(3):ENEURO.0286-21.2022. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0286-21.2022. Abstract Women report greater cigarette cravings during the menstrual cycle phase with higher circulating levels of 17β-estradiol (E2), which is metabolized to estrone (E1). Both E2 […]

We were awarded a new R21 grant from NIDA, titled ” Contributions of Progestins Independently and Interactively with Contraceptive Estrogen to Nicotine Use”. A collaboration with Drs. Heather Bimonte-Nelson (ASU) and Josh Beckmann (UK)!