3/26/2026: Cassidy Kline, now a 2nd year Human Toxicology PhD student, presented a poster at the Society of Toxicology (SOT) meeting in San Diego! In addition to the CSSOT 2nd Place Talk prize she received last fall, she received the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) travel award as well as the SOT Metals Specialty Section travel award. Congrats, Cassidy!!!

2/25/2026: We're happy to share that we have been awarded two OVPR Large Grant Phase I grants, one to study the neuroscience of creativity (with a large interdisciplinary team) and another to study the exposome in endometrial cancer (with PI Kristi Thiel and Jong Sung Kim).

2/16/2026: Excited to welcome, Katie Piaszynski, 1st year Genetics PhD student, for a lab rotation!

2/9/2026: We are grateful for the support of the Nellie Ball Trust, which will help fund our research on neuroprotective effects of antipsychotics.

1/13/2026: We're excited to welcome Avery Franzen, a 1st year Psychiatry Resident, for a research block!

11/19/2025: We are happy to welcome Samantha Anema, 1st year Neuroscience PhD student, for a lab rotation!

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.

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.

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!