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On Tuesday, September 24, our NGG student Nicole successfully defended her doctoral thesis! Her talk was entitled “The Role of the Central GLP-1 System in Cocaine-Seeking Behavior,” and it encapsulated her 5 years of graduate research into the effects and … Read More

Suditi Rahematpura ’21 and Amanda Moreno ’21 presented their summer research projects funded by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) at the Fall 2019 Research Expo!

“Our research investigates how addictive drugs like cocaine, opioids, and nicotine change the brain to produce compulsive drug-taking and -seeking behavior.” Lab Art by Antonia Caffrey

News Maggie Zhou Presents Her Rotating Experience on September 7thMaggie Zhou, a second-year graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG) at the University of Pennsylvania, recently shared insights from her summer rotation at the Schmidt Lab. During her time … Read More

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Selected Publications 2024 Barr GA, Schmidt HD, Thakrar AP, Kranzler HR, Liu R (2024) Revisiting dezocine for opioid use disorder: A narrative review of its potential abuse liability . CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 2024 Sep;30(9):e70034.PMID: 39295098 Reiner BC, Chehimi SN, … Read More

Principal Investigator Heath D. Schmidt, Ph.D. Dr. Heath D. Schmidt is the Killebrew-Censits Chair of Undergraduate Education and a Professor of Neuroscience & Pharmacology in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine at Penn. As a neuropharmacologist and director of the … Read More

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle” - George Orwell Novel roles for peripheral metabolic factors in substance use disorders Given that the search for effective pharmacotherapies for cocaine use disorder has, thus far, been fruitless, … Read More