Our paper is finally out on our experimentally-driven neuromechanical model to explain how spinal inhibition makes you do things faster! cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Thrilled to join the Rita Allen Scholars community (ritaallen.org/stories/2025-s…) and grateful for the support! Glad to (re)discover many inspirational colleagues as current and former award in pain scholars.

Meet the 2025 Klingenstein Neuroscience Fellows! Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund is pleased to welcome 13 highly promising, early career scientists conducting cutting-edge research. Each will receive $450K over 3 years and join us at our scientific conference.

Grateful for this amazing opportunity and generous support @KlingensteinOrg !

Congrats to OBI Investigator, Seungwon (Sebastian) Choi 최승원, who is a 2025 recipient of the @KlingensteinOrg Fellowship Award in Neuroscience for his project, "Unraveling the Cancer-Neuron Crosstalk: Pathological Interactions Between Cancer and Pain Circuits." schoilab.org

Happy to announce that I will be starting my lab at UTSW!!! Let’s go💪!

Highly sensitive science: a nice write-up of David's work news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

⚡️🧠A nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway modulating affective-motivational pain Now published on the cover of Science Advances !!! Improved with projection-specific, pain-active intersectional chemogenetic pain behavior Check it out 👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Grateful for the support from the McKnight Foundation and excited for the work ahead.

I am thrilled to share that I will be starting my lab in the Center for Pediatric Neurological Disease Research (CPNDR) at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as a faculty member St. Jude St. Jude Research. Deeply grateful for the incredible mentorship, support and camaraderie in

Thrilled to announce my lab received our first R01 to study mechanisms of astringency transduction and sensation! Totally fitting that my first R01 would bring together two of my loves- neuroscience and wine. We're all so excited to study this understudied aspect of flavor.

The first manuscript based on my lab's data! We show that dopamine activity in the ventral striatum encodes moment-by-moment temporal-difference error during aversive situations, suggesting that dopamine serves as a unified teaching signal across valences. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

A fantastic day at the SNU Neuro-Chemical-Metabolism Symposium!🧠 Brilliant talks on body–brain communication, metabolism & circuits—thanks to our speakers, students & colleagues for making it a success! #Neuroscience #Metabolism #BrainBody

Our department UTSW Psychiatry is hiring TT faculty! Our Neuroscience Research Division has diverse research programs, from genes to neural circuits to human brain imaging. UT Southwestern Medical Center has a vibrant/growing neuroscience community UT Southwestern O'Donnell Brain Institute nature.com/naturecareers/…

Fish somatosensory system detects pressure, velocity and vibrations without the receptors typical of amniotes. Our new story by Ke Tan. Functional evidence for early origin of tactile acuity in the vertebrate somatosensory system. cell.com/current-biolog…

New episode of The Pain Beat just dropped! A key route to identify new pain treatments is gaining traction. Hear more about it at the Pain Research Form. painresearchforum.org/multimedia Pain Research Forum IASP Ewan St. John Smith Stephani Sutherland

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

A terrific new opportunity for new or early career faculty to join the outstanding and rapidly growing faculty of UT Southwestern O'Donnell Brain Institute. Spread the word!

👇🏼Fantastic neuroscience faculty opportunity here at UT Southwestern O'Donnell Brain Institute UT Southwestern Medical Center !

Excited to share the final version of our paper, where we invented a robotic device (ARM) for pain and somatosensory testing in rodents. We are excited to see many groups already getting this device in their labs through our startup company Tactorum Inc. elifesciences.org/articles/99614…