Vanderbilt Center For Addiction Research

Discovering new roads to recovery through research, education, and medication development

[Vanderbilt Center For Addiction Research @VCARScience]

We are hiring! In partnership with @VanderbiltMPB, we invite applications for a senior or mid-career faculty position in areas related to substance use disorder. This is an excellent opportunity to do science in an amazing environment.
https://t.co/Ct4B5VZouH

[Vanderbilt MSTP @VanderbiltMSTP]

Congratulations to Drs. Stephanie Cajigas Gabriel (@sacajigas), Joseph DeCorte (@DecorteJoseph) and Duby Okonkwo for successfully defending and completing their PhDs in January!

[Vanderbilt MSTP @VanderbiltMSTP]

Congratulations to Thomas Clarity @ThomasClarity (G2) for receiving his NIH F30 fellowship!

[Dr.ErinCalipari @TheErinCalipari]

@VanderbiltU Giving Day is coming up this Thursday. You can make a huge impact on addiction through giving to @VCARScience. If we get 100 donors this week, a $30,000 gift will be unlocked! Learn more here: https://t.co/NnVvfZ9L71

[Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences @VUBasicSciences]

🥃 New research reveals that chronic #alcohol use disrupts the relationship between midbrain gene expression and dopamine regulation—persisting even after prolonged abstinence. https://t.co/RguKMss3Vs

[Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences @VUBasicSciences]

🌟 We are celebrating Elana Milano for her exceptional contributions to our school! As the program manager of research for @VanderbiltMPB, @VCARScience, and the CAIPD, her hard work and passion are integral to the success of our community. 👏🏾👏👏🏻👏🏽 https://t.co/iSRBqT0XUJ

[Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences @VUBasicSciences]

🎉 Congratulations to @TheErinCalipari of @VCARScience and Steven Townsend @Townsend_Lab for receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers! 🏆

Read on about their incredible basic science-related research 👉 https://t.co/iBlWFKmmTI

[Vanderbilt Pharmacology @VandyPharm]

🎉 Congratulations to @TheErinCalipari for being awarded the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers! Your dedication to advancing science is truly inspirational. #PECASE
@VCARScience @VUBasicSciences @VanderbiltU

https://t.co/jqbOx6lUoQ

[Heather Burrell Ward, MD @hbwardMD]

The Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry @VUMCPsych 🧠is recruiting an Associate or full Professor 🤩 to advance work in mood or anxiety disorders as an Endowed Chair 🪑. Join a vibrant faculty in Nashville! 🎶🏙️ https://t.co/OchToD3zi3 @VUMC_Insights @VUMCResearch @VUMChealth

[Vanderbilt Center For Addiction Research @VCARScience]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Don't forget to come party with us today!

[Vanderbilt Center For Addiction Research @VCARScience]

Come and celebrate Halloween with us! Anyone is invited to drop in for some snacks and fun.

[Vanderbilt Center For Addiction Research @VCARScience]

Come and celebrate Halloween with us! Anyone is invited to drop in for some snacks and fun.

[Vanderbilt Center For Addiction Research @VCARScience]

Congrats to @ritikaragwho!

[Julio Ayala @TheBurro34]

Great to see when hard work pays off for people in the lab. Congrats to ⁦@ritikaragwho⁩ for an awesome score on her F31 application! Thanks to everyone from ⁦@VUBasicSciences⁩ and ⁦@VUbretASPIRE⁩ for all of their help.

[Julio Ayala @TheBurro34]

Great to see when hard work pays off for people in the lab. Congrats to ⁦@ritikaragwho⁩ for an awesome score on her F31 application! Thanks to everyone from ⁦@VUBasicSciences⁩ and ⁦@VUbretASPIRE⁩ for all of their help.

[Inscopix @Inscopix]

🎉Congrats to @TheErinCalipari on winning the Jacob P. Waletzky Award at #SfN24! 🏆Her remarkable contributions continue to inspire and push the boundaries of research. Don’t miss this session.
��� Saturday, October 5 | 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
📍 LEC04.04 ➡️ https://t.co/x8bFAMskUO

[Ritika Raghu @ritikaragwho]

My first ever national conference presentation obviously had to be at #sfn 🧠❤️ I remember attending (and feeling overwhelmed) for the first time as a 1st year PhD student and now presenting as a PhD candidate! GLP1Rs have entered the chat! 💉💊@SfNtweets

[Dr.ErinCalipari @TheErinCalipari]

A reminder that @VCARScience is hiring. Come find me at #SFN2024 to talk about opportunities at @VanderbiltU and what a great research community we have.

Posting here: https://t.co/rRga10Eew4

[Maxime Chevée @MaximeChevee]

If you’re going to #SfN24, come check out our minisymposium! The Effects of Food Consumption on the Circuitry of Reward and Decision Making featuring @drstephieb, @LexKravitz, ME Baugh, @Steph_Kullmann and @NeuroBoc

📅Saturday Oct 5 2pm – 4:30pm
📍MCP room S100A

[Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences @VUBasicSciences]

🎉 Congrats to @TheErinCalipari, director of @VCARScience for winning the 2024 @SfNtweets Jacob P. Waletzky Award! 🏅

The award recognizes early-career scientists whose research will make significant contributions to #addiction research and treatment.

https://t.co/ObmduAtCXS

[Dr. Melissa Sharpe @MelissaJSharpe]

Over the moon to accept the presidency for @PavlovSociety! I owe a lot to this community and can’t wait to host #Pavlovian2025 in SYDNEY 🇦🇺. We already have 50% of our speakers confirmed with another 50% to be selected from abstracts as well as an ECR data blitz and posters!!

[Vanderbilt Pharmacology @VandyPharm]

🚨 Attention Research Community! The @CigliolaLab Pharmacology is looking for a highly motivated, hardworking Research Assistant to join. If interested in learning about spinal cord regeneration, apply using the link below:

https://t.co/OWuPbAGvsr

[Munir Gunes Kutlu @MunirGunesKutlu]

Thank you for the shout out @PavlovSociety (that’s another Kutlu Lab though 😁)