Dr. Zachary Tatom has been selected to receive a two year postdoctoral slot on the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) T32 for fall 2025, with Dr. Palmer as his mentor. Under the fellowship, Zachary will engage in alcohol research and studies within Palmer Lab with T32 support for up to two years.
Congratulations, Zachary!
Our recently-funded NIDA P30 Center grant was announced in the campus publication UC San Diego Today.
The article is titled “UC San Diego Awarded $8 Million to Uncover Genetic Foundations of Substance Use Disorders.”
Gavi Ang, Dr. Benjamin Johnson, April Jones, Elaine Keung, Dr. Daniel Munro, and Dr. Thiago Missfeldt Sanches have been selected as 2024 STAR Award Recipients in recognition of and appreciation for their outstanding service and enduring contribution to the advancement of the psychiatry department’s teaching, research, clinical and public service missions.
Congratulations!
Congratulations, Faith!
Recipient of the Gabriele Wienhausen Biological Sciences Scholarship for 2023-2024 at UC San Diego and a second runner-up for the 2023 Triton Student Employee of the Year Award!
Dr. Abraham Palmer received the 2022 Health Sciences Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award for outstanding mentorship of future leaders in academic medicine at UC San Diego.
Congratulations, Dr. Palmer!
Master’s Student Elizabeth Alcantara was recently awarded the BrightSpinnaker Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to students who demonstrate a commitment to community service and provides funding for the master’s program at UCSD.
Congratulations, Liz!
Dr. Abraham Palmer has received a $200,000 supplement for the project titled, “Making data from the center for GWAS in out bred rats FAIR and AI/ML ready”. NIDA has provided these funds to improve the AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning)-readiness of data from the Center for GWAS outbred rats. Additionally, these funds will be used to address important shortcomings in the processing of several large datasets and be used to implement new methods of effective information sharing.
Dr. Palmer is a co-investigator on an NIH/HIDCD grant received by Dr. Rick Friendman, entitled “The genetics of functional decline in the aging vestibular system: A GWAS and gene expression analysis in aging mice and humans.” This project seeks to identify and study the genetic basis of age-related hearing impairment.
Dr. Abraham Palmer has been named a Fellow (i.e., senior or honorary member) in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his contributions to psychiatry. Congratulations, Abe!
Apurva Chitre, Bonnie Lin, and Oksana Polesskaya have been selected as 2019-20 STAR Award Recipients in recognition of and appreciation for their outstanding service and enduring contribution to the advancement of the psychiatry department’s teaching, research, clinical and public service missions. Congratulations, Apurva, Bonnie, and Oksana!
