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Addiction recovery will be OnDemand!

Coming online Fall 2021: UT Physicians Virtual Clinic featuring statewide virtual therapy, medication assisted treatment and case management services for Texans living with substance use disorders and/or mental health challenges. Stay tuned for more inormation.

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ARTT Retreat Coming in 2022!

The ARTT Center of Excellence is planning a retreat, in 2022, for anyone working or interested in research, treatment, education, or policy on substance use disorders to share information, facilitate discussion, and promote collaboration among students, trainees, researchers, and clinicians at UTHSCSA. More information will be provided in the coming months, on the ARTT website!

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Congratulations to Nikki Clauss, PhD!

Dr. Clauss, a T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Lynette C Daws' laboratory, received 1st Place in the postdoctoral oral presentation competition for the Division for Behavioral Pharmacology of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)!

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Congratulations to Michelle Doyle!

Ms. Doyle, a graduate student mentored by Gregory T Collins, PhD, recently won this year's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Senior Graduate Student of the Year Award. This award recognizes a graduate student who demonstrates the best potential for research success and demonstrates sustained excellence in academics. Read more about it here.

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Welcome Erin E Wood, PhD!

Dr. Wood started her postdoctoral fellowship, in July, working with Dr. Nathalie A Hill-Kapturczak. Get to know more about Dr. Wood through her trainee biography page on the T32 website here.

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Congratulations to Robert Seaman, Jr!

Him and co-director Gregory Collins, PhD, recently published a manuscript identifying that structurally related synthetic cathinones, or “bath salts,” produce MDPV-like discriminative stimulus effects with a rank-order potency. Read more about it here.

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Congratulations to Shawn Flynn!

He recently had his first paper published since joining the France Lab. It describes diminished antagonism of the discriminative stimulus effects of carfentanil relative to those of other opioids. Read more about it in The Pipette Gazette!

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Congratulations to Vanessa Minervini!

Vanessa's application was chosen to be the ASPET nomination to represent the division as the Young Investigator Corresponding Member for the Executive Committee of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR).