10/30/2025: Susan was awarded the Williams-Cannon Fellowship for neurodegeneration research. We are very grateful to the Cannon family for this generous support.

10/29/2025: We're excited to welcome Logan Corwin, our first undergrad! Welcome, Logan!

10/10/2025: Cassidy gave an awesome talk at the CSSOT conference on her work looking at interactions between antipsychotics and heavy metals! She received the 2nd place award for a talk.

9/7/2025: We're absolutely thrilled that Dr. Marcelo Melo, a recent Genetics PhD grad from Dr. Hatem El-Shanti's lab in Pediatrics, will be joining our lab as a postdoc working on the NIDA project!

8/25/2025: We're excited to have Kelsey Payne, a 1st year Neuroscience PhD student, rotate with us. Welcome, Kelsey!

8/15/2025: Our five-year NIDA DP1 Avenir project, "Molecular and Cellular Subtyping of Response to Drugs of Abuse in Co-morbid Psychiatric Disorders" has been funded! We are incredibly grateful for this extraordinary opportunity.

The Shen Lab is currently looking for a POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR to lead a NIDA-funded project investigating genetic risk factors associated with substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric disorders, using iPSC-derived brain cell types. This project is ideal for researchers seeking to gain experience with translational neuroscience, mentorship of other trainees, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Prior experience with microscopy, iPSC culture, electrophysiology/multielectrode arrays, genomics, and/or machine learning is highly desirable but not required. Official job listing: https://jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view/4466

8/7/2025: We're very grateful that the EHSRC will be supporting Cassidy Kline's PhD studies for the next year!

8/5/2025: Susan just returned from an awesome week at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course, Neuroscience of Addiction

7/29/2025: We are excited to participate in the MEXA Generative AI for Mental Health Research Accelerator funded by Wellcome and run in partnership with Neuromatch!

6/23/2025: Welcome to Alice Hu, an SSTP student! We're excited to have you for the summer!

5/14/2025: We are thrilled that Cassidy Kline, a Human Toxicology PhD student who rotated with us last fall, has decided to join our lab as our first graduate student!!! Welcome, Cassidy!!!

3/29/2025: We are excited to have second-year MSTP student Lexie Golden join us on a project related to bipolar disorder!

3/24/2025: Susan will be headed to the National Academy of Medicine 2025 Emerging Leaders Forum in D.C. next month! Press release here.

3/18/2025: Susan's co-first author Nature Communications publication, "A phenopushing platform to identify compounds that alleviate acute hypoxic stress by fast-tracking cellular adaptation" from her postdoc in the labs of Steven Altschuler and Lani Wu is out!

2/20/2025: Safa Kalteh and Cassidy Kline finished their rotations and gave awesome end-of-rotation talks for the Human Toxicology PhD program!

2/17/2025: Welcome to Neuroscience 1st-year PhD rotation students, Sophie Keis and Prerana Ramanan! Very excited to have you rotate with us!

1/23/2025: Shen lab, in collaboration with the labs of Jong Sung Kim and Mike Petronek, is awarded the MATFab Seed Grant to help establish laser ablation ICP-MS (used by geologists to analyze rock samples) at UIowa for spatial mapping of elements in brain and other tissues

1/21/2025: Susan has a manuscript from her postdoc in the labs of Steven Altschuler and Lani Wu accepted for publication in Nature Communications

11/20/2024: Jong Sung Kim's lab, in collaboration with the Shen Lab, is awarded the College of Public Health GAP Fund to support the development of toenail-based biomarkers

11/11/2024: Welcome to Human Toxicology 1st-year PhD rotation students, Safa Kalteh and Cassidy Kline! Thrilled to have you rotate with us!

9/16/2024: Welcome to Ben Borrman, our postbacc intern! So excited to have you here!