📈 Up 3️⃣ spots to No. 1️⃣. ✅: 2nd straight year that Purdue has been ranked No. 1.

Back to 1️⃣.

My defense outfit has officially been SECURED #phdlife

John Bilbily, post-doc in Jordan McCall's lab, received a McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience Small Grant for his new project studying electroconvulsive therapy on GABA interneurons, which could lead to new treatments for severe psychiatric disorders. Congratulations, John!

With my defense on the horizon, I’m starting to get in my feels about leaving my lab home. So here’s a cute pic of the McCAl-Hasani Lab(s) grad students with the bosses 😭

I’ll tell you what, finishing a PhD is not for the weak. But we’re almost there! #homestretch

Check our new preprint! Excited to be able to collab with Bhooma Aravamuthan MD DPhil 🤩

Introducing Dr Makenzie Norris ⁦Makenzie Norris, PhD⁩, the second ⁦WUSTL ENDURE⁩ scholar to get their PhD! A full auditorium and online crowd witnessed a spectacular recounting of new ways to address chronic pain.

Congratulations ⁦Dr. ⁦Makenzie Norris, PhD⁩! What an exciting time for you and a proud moment for #proudpi ⁦Jordan McCall⁩ and the whole ⁦@ClinicPharmSTL⁩ family! ⁦@WUSTL_AnesRsrch⁩ ⁦University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in STL⁩

The milestones just keep coming this week! Congratulations on successfully defending your PhD Makenzie Norris, PhD and to the #proudmentor Jordan McCall! University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in STL @WUSTL_AnesRsrch @WUSTLdbbs

One thing I will say about industry one day in…the onboarding process is the most seamless thing I have ever experienced. EVERYTHING was just set up upon my arrival with a clear plan of action for the next 100 days. Wild.

“Money isn’t everything” and “follow your passion” are terrible pieces of advice. Academics, I'm talking to you. 1/

When the Jimmy John’s-loving Managing Director has a birthday... Happy birthday, Matt Helms! A full BioGenerator Ventures team effort with mastermind Marsha King, Makenzie Norris, PhD, and the AgTech team covering diversion while we cut and taped #freakyfast. #jimmyjohns #birthday

Endogenous opioids gate the locus coeruleus pain generator biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

New preprint from Jordan McCall and Makenzie Norris, PhD on paradoxical roles of Locus coeruleus and mu opioid receptors in acute and chronic pain

Check out the last paper of my PhD! #chronicpain #opioids #lc

Now in #PAIN: “Spared nerve injury decreases motivation in long-access homecage-based operant tasks in mice” by Makenzie Norris, PhD McCAl-Hasani Lab(s) et al. bit.ly/4b7MrqP

Now in #PAIN: “Spared nerve injury decreases motivation in long-access homecage-based operant tasks in mice” by Makenzie Norris, PhD McCAl-Hasani Lab(s) et al. bit.ly/4b7MrqP