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We are grateful to those who make our research possible. Thank you!

News + Celebrations

2023

  • Jan - NEW GRANT: The lab is awarded a NINDS R01 to neural ensembles driving pain chronification in collaboration with Dr. Kevin Beier, UCI

  • Jan - Jackie Wu joins the lab as a Penn Student Researcher : Welcome !

  • Jan - NEW GRANT: Lisa Wooldridge is awarded a NRSA F31 from NIDA to parabrachial-amygdala circuits in fentanyl withdrawal : Congrats, Jess!

  • Jan 2 - Year FOUR Labversary !

2022

  • Sept - NEW GRANT: Lindsay Ejoh is awarded a Diversity Supplement from NIGMS to investigate cortico-thalamic circuits in pain : Congrats, Lindsay !

  • Sept - NEW GRANT: The lab is awarded a NIDA R01 to uncover the circuitry dynamics of the midbrain and amygdala underlying opioid-dependence in collaboration with Drs. Julie Blendy (Penn), Dani Bassett (Penn), Kevin Beier (UCI), and Justus Kebschull (JHU)

  • June - Juliann Chiu, Leann Goldberg, and Miles Kim join the lab as a Penn Student Researcher : Welcome !

  • June - Malaika Mahmood joins the lab as a Research Specialist and Lab Manager : Welcome Malaika !

  • May - NEW GRANT: Jess Wojick is awarded a NRSA F31 from NINDS to study amygdala-accumbens circuits in pain and depression : Congrats, Jess!

  • Feb - NEW GRANT: Dr. Blake Kimmey is awarded a NRSA F32 from NIDA to study nociceptive endogenous opioid dynamics in the periaqueductal gray : Congrats, Blake!

  • Feb - NEW AWARD: Greg is named as a 2021 Rita Allen Foundation Award in Pain Scholars

  • Jan 2 - Year THREE Labversary !!!

2021

  • Oct - NEW GRANT: The lab is awarded a NIDA R01 to map opioid-dependence state transitions across structural, functional, and transcriptomic topologies

    • This is our first R01 and it’s an awesome multi-PI effort alongside Drs. Julie Blendy (Penn) + Dani Bassett (Penn) + Kevin Beier (UCI) + Justus Kebschull (JHU)

  • Oct - NEW GRANT: Dr. Greg Salimando is appointed to NIDA T32 Translational Addiction Research Fellowship Program : Congrats, Greg !

  • Sept - Sophie Rogers joins the lab for her thesis work on serotonergic psychedelic cortical mechanisms : Welcome Sophie !

  • Sept - Lindsay Ejoh joins the lab for her thesis work on placebo analgesia + pain/opioid neural circuits in the thalamus : Welcome Lindsay !

  • Sept - Emily Lo starts her Senior Independent Thesis Research project on lipid metabolism and Alzheimer’s Disease cognitive decline : Exciting new project, Emily !

  • Sept - Morgan Kindel & Joseph Stucynski start their NGG rotations : Welcome Mojo (Morgan + Joe mashup) !

  • May - Lisa Wooldridge advances to Doctoral Candidacy : Congrats Lisa, well earned !

  • March - NEW GRANT: Nora is awarded a F32 NRSA from NIDA to study cortical opioid circuits in pain ! Congratulations, Nora, and well earned !

  • Feb - Meghan Wachira starts her Penn Genomics Post-Bac : Welcome Meghan!

  • Jan - NEW PUBLICATION : Greg publishes in JAMA Open Network in collaboration with Penn colleagues in the Satterthwaite Labs !

  • Jan 2 - Year TWO Labversary !

2020

  • December - NEW PUBLICATION : Blake, Nora, Lisa, and Greg publish a review article in Journal of Neuroscience Research on engaging endogenous opioid circuits in pain affective processes.

  • October - NEW GRANT: The Lab is awarded the DP2 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Thank you so much to NIGMS and the Common Fund for this strong support to investigate novel strategies to leverage cortical opioidergic circuits as intrinsic analgesics to disrupt the aversive qualities of pain perception !

  • September - Lisa Wooldridge joins the lab for her graduate studies : Welcome Lisa !

  • August - NEW GRANT: The Lab is awarded a grant from the Whitehall Foundation. Thank you so much for the support to investigate cortical attention-circuits in pain !

  • August - NEW PUBLICATION : Jess, and Greg publish in eLIFE in collaboration with Penn colleagues in the Abdus-Saboor and Plotkin Labs !

  • July - Dr. Gregory Salimando joins the lab for his postdoctoral studies : Welcome Greg !

  • June - Jessica Wojick advances to Doctoral Candidacy : Congrats Jess, well earned !

  • May - NEW PUBLICATION : Nora, Jess, and Greg publish in Nature Neuroscience, News & Views; our lab’s first published work !

  • Feb - Dr. Blake Kimmey joins the lab for his postdoctoral studies: Welcome Blake !

  • Jan - Simay Ipek + Justin James join the lab as Penn Student Researchers: Welcome Simay and Justin !

  • Jan - NEW GRANT: The Lab is awarded the Pathways Research Award. Thank you to Alkermes for the support to develop novel treatments for neonatal opioid withdrawal.

  • Jan 2 - Year ONE Labversary !

2019

  • November - Shivanki Juneja joins the lab for her Senior Independent Research: Welcome Shivanki !

  • August - NEW GRANT: The Lab is awarded its very first grant, NARSAD Young Investigator Grant. Thank you to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation for the support to investigate neonatal opioid withdrawal alterations in the amygdala threat neural circuitry.

  • August - Nora is appointed to NIHMH T32 : Training Program in Neuropsychopharamcology: Congratulations Nora !

  • June - Emily Lo + Angelina Heyler join the lab for the summer Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring (PURM) Program : Welcome Emily and Angelina !!

  • April - Dr. Nora McCall joins the lab for her postdoctoral studies : Welcome Nora !

  • April - NEW GRANT: The lab begins its NIDA R00 Phase of the Pathway to Independence Award

  • March - Jess Wojick joins the lab for her graduate studies : Welcome Jess !

  • Jan 17 - NEW PUBLICATION : After 5.5 years our research on amygdala neurons processing pain affect is published in Science !

  • Jan 2 - And. We. Are. OPEN. FOR. SCIENCE! We have begun the initial set-up phase of the lab.

2018

  • Signed an offer for tenure-track Assistant Professor at Penn, Perelman School of Medicine, joint-appointment in Depts of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

  • June - NEW PUBLICATION: Our new review on opioids in the Annual Review of Neuroscience is released! Endogenous and Exogenous Opioids in Pain. This was a fun writing collaboration with Michael Bruchas and Daniel Castro, WashU. Link

  • June - Dr. Corder was featured in the San Jose Mercury News article, Young, brilliant and broke: Push to fund young biomedical scientists. Link

  • March - NEW PUBLICATION: publication in Neuron: "Functional divergence of delta and mu opioid receptor organization in CNS pain circuits", by Dong Wang et al. Our article was selected for the cover!

2017

  • May - NEW AWARD: K99/R00 Pathway-to-Independence Award funded!

  • February - NEW PUBLICATION: publication in Nature Medicine: “Loss of mu opioid receptor signaling in nociceptors, and not spinal microglia, abrogates morphine tolerance without disrupting analgesia” by Greg Corder, Viv Tawfik, Dong Wang, Elizabeth Sypek et al. Our article was featured on the cover!