Dr. Daniel Munro receives promotion
Dr. Daniel Munro has been promoted to Assistant Project Scientist!
Congratulations, Daniel!
Dr. Palmer gives talk at Rutgers University
Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk at Rutgers University for the Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RARC).
His talk, “The Genetic Basis of Substance Use Disorders: What We’ve Learned from Humans and Rats,” was part of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center/Brain Health Institute 2025 Plenary Seminar Series.
Dr. Abraham Palmer awarded California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program Grant
Dr. Abraham Palmer was selected to receive a Research Award from the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) for his project titled “Genome-wide association and fine-mapping of smoking using tandem repeats and structural variants.”
This is a three year, $1,215,000 grant that starts July 1, 2025 and ends June 30, 2028.
Congratulations!
Dr. Palmer gives talk for Kansas State University
Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk for the Kansas State University Department of Anatomy and Physiology Spring Seminar Series on April 8, 2025.
His talk, “Using genetic approaches to understand addiction-related traits,” was presented remotely.
Dr. Abraham Palmer will continue as Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry
We are pleased to announce that after a department-wide search, Dr. Abraham Palmer has been selected to continue as Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Palmer commenced the role of Vice Chair of Basic Science Research in 2016.
Manuscript published in Nature Genetics
Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the review article titled “Psychiatric Genetics in the Diverse Landscape of Latin American Populations,” which was published in Nature Genetics.
Dr. Abraham Palmer receives 2025 Department of Pharmacology Distinguished Alumni Award
The award presentation took place during the weekly Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series and included Dr. Palmer’s Distinguished Alumni Lecture, “Understanding addiction through the lens of genetics.”
Congratulations, Dr. Palmer!
Denghui Chen receives NIH/NIDA F31 predoctoral fellowship!
Denghui Chen received an F31 Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the NIH & NIDA for his project titled “Unraveling the Role of Tandem Repeats and Structural Variants in Addiction-Related Behaviors Using Heterogeneous Stock Rats.”
Manuscript accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior
Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the manuscript titled “Genetic Propensity for Delay Discounting and Educational Attainment in Adults are Associated with Delay Discounting in Preadolescents: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study” was accepted in Genes, Brain and Behavior.
Manuscript accepted in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science
Dr. Palmer is a co-author on the manuscript titled “Sex-specific Concordance of Striatal Transcriptional Signatures of Opioid Addiction in Human and Rodent Brains” was accepted in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.
