News Archive
2017
December 21st, 2017 - Congratulations to Mee Jung Ko for being awarded a competitive A.H. Ismail Interdisciplinary Program Doctoral Research Travel Award to attend the International Narcotics Reseach Conference in San Diego in 2018.
December 14th, 2017 - Dr. Van Rijn presented a seminar titled "new ways to treat addiction - bias can be good" at the National Health Research Institute (NHRI) in Taiwan.
December 13th, 2017 - Kendall Mores received an OUR scholar award from the Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research to perform an independent research project in the Van Rijn lab. Congratulations Kendall!
December 11th, 2017 - Anna Gutridge, a new graduate student in the MCMP department has accepted a position in the Van Rijn lab. Welcome Anna!
November 30th, 2017 - A collaborative manuscript by visiting scientist Ricardo Marquez-Gomez describing evidence for the existence of heteromers between adenosine A2a and histamine H3 receptors has been accepted in the journal Pharmacological Research.
November 20th, 2017 - Congratulations to Doungkamol "Dr. Nook" Alongkronrusmee for successfully presenting and defending her thesis entitled "Identification of novel therapeutic targets for chronic pain"!
November 15th, 2017 - Meridith Robins and Mee Jung Ko presented their research at the poster session at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington DC. Meridith presented research detailing her study of the synthetic stimulant ethylphenidate (794.10/RR15). Mee Jung presented her work studying the role of delta opioid receptors in anxiety-like behavior (792.05/PP27).
November 14th, 2017 - Dr. Van Rijn presented a seminar in the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury series of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience (PIIN) titled "Alcohol-induced pain - role of aldehydes and TRPA1"
November 11th, 2017 - Congratulations to Mee Jung Ko for successfully defending her original research proposal and becoming an official PhD candidate within the Purdue University Life Sciences program. Way to go Mee Jung!!
October 2nd, 2017 - Congratulations to Meridith Robins for receiving a Kienly Award for Excellence in Teaching, for contributing as a teaching assistant to the success of the MCMP544 course on "Drug Classes and Mechanisms".
September 12th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn received a $1,700,000 5-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study "G-protein, beta-arrestin and ERK signaling in alcohol use and anxiety disorders".
July 28th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn has become a member of the executive committee of the Purdue University Interdisciplinary Life Sciences program (PULSe) and the new head of the Integrative Neuroscience training group, representing over 50 neuroscience faculty at Purdue University . He takes over the position from Dr. Cannon who now serves as the director of the PULSe program.
July 11th, 2017 - The Van Rijn lab is out in force at the annual International Narcotics Research Conference in Chicago, with Meridith Robins, Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee and Robert Cassell all presenting posters and Dr. van Rijn giving a talk in a symposium he organized on the role of opioid receptors in alcohol use disorders.
June 28th, 2017 - Meridith Robins won a very competitive and prestigious Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award at the 2017 Research Society on Alcoholism conference for her presentation entitled "Critical role of Gi-protein signaling in the dorsal striatum in the reduction of voluntary alcohol intake in C57BL/6 mice". Great accomplishment Meridith!
June 22nd, 2017 - Dove Medical Press released a press statement highlighting our recent perspective on the etiology and treatment of neuropathic pain. The press release was covered by several news sites.
June 16th, 2017 - Congratulations to Robert Cassell for successfully defending his original proposal to become a PhD candidate!
May 30th, 2017 - Congratulations to Robert Cassell, Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee and Meredith Robins for receiving travel grants to attend the 2017 International Narcotics Research Conference (INRC) in Chicago.
May 25th, 2017 - Our 2016 Plos One article on caffeine mixed alcohol was in the top 1% most downloaded articles of the year (out of 22,000 total).
May 25th, 2017 - We are 2 for 2: Meridith Robins also received the Bilsland Dissertation fellowship for her thesis research focused on stimulant and alcohol use disorders. Congratulations Meridith!
May 18th, 2017 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee received a Certificate of Excellence for her poster presentation at the Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Students spring symposium on May 3rd. Well done Nook!
May 12th, 2017 - Meridith Robins received a Paget Travel award to attend the annual Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington DC to present a poster on the "Behavioral and neurochemical analysis of novel psychoactive substance ethylphenidate exposure in adolescent male and female mice". Congrats Meridith!
May 9th, 2017 - George Takei created a video highlighting our research paper on the risks of adolescents consumption of caffeine-mixed alcohol on his facebook page. The video has already been viewed one million times. Meridith's Plos One paper has been viewed over 23,000 times within 1 year of publication.
May 9th, 2017 - Mee Jung Ko received a travel grant from the Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) to attend the annual Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington DC to present her work on delta opioid receptors and anxiety-like behavior. Congratulations Mee Jung!
May 9th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn gave a talk entitled "Strong beta-arrestin signaling may cause unwanted effects for drug treatments of alcohol use disorders" that was well received at the Alcoholism and Stress Conference in Volterra, Italy.
May 1st, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn received a summer faculty grant ($8,000) from the Purdue Research Foundation to investigate to what extent beta-arrestin signaling impacts drug-induced seizure activity. Thanks for the support!
April 18th, 2017 - Meridith Robins received a Student Merit travel award from the Research Society on Alcoholism to attend their annual meeting in Denver. Congratulations!
April 17th, 2017 - Doungkamol 'Nook' Alongkronrusmee received the Bilsland Dissertation fellowship for her thesis research focused on the identification and characterization of novel targets for (chronic) pain. Congratulations Nook!
April 14th, 2017 - Mee Jung Ko received a travel grant from the College of Science/PULSe 'Women in Science Program' to attend the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington DC. Congratulations!
April 7th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn is a co-investigator on an MCMP research enhancement award ($48,000) on a team including Drs. Watts, Lill and Flaherty to develop and characterize novel adenyly cyclase type 1 selective inhibitors for chronic pain. Thanks for the support!
March 24th, 2017 - Even when she is not feeling 100% Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee shows up to present her poster and walks away with 3rd prize at the Health and Disease poster session. Great job.
March 22nd, 2017 - Meridith Robins has been selected as one of the finalists for the Enoch Gordis graduate research recognition awards at the upcoming conference of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Denver from June 24th-28th. As a finalist, Meridith will present a poster and give an oral presentation on her research studying the effect of biased signaling in the dorsal striatum on alcohol intake. Congratulations!
March 17th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn was interviewed in the Kelly Cutrara Show for Toronto Talk Radio AM640 to discuss policy under consideration by the Toronto Board of Health restricting marketing and sale of energy drinks to teenagers.
March 3rd, 2017 - Kendall Mores and Ji Won 'Ellen' Ha received Dean Summer Fellowships from the College of Pharmacy to perform research over the summer break. Congrats!
February 28th, 2017 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee won the first prize in the Sigma Xi Poster symposium in the Life Sciences category with a poster describing her project on disruption of delta-mu opioid heteromers. Congrats Nook!
February 27th, 2017 - Our recent collaborative publication with Dr. Watts in Science Signaling detailing the discovery of a novel AC1 selective inhibitor was featured in Science magazine.
February 15th, 2017 - MeeJung Ko and Logan Ganzen (Yuk Fai Leung lab - Biological Sciences) have been awarded a $2,000 collaborative research grant from the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience to develop a "Pharmacological Model of TRPA1-mediated Nociception in the Zebrafish for Therapeutic Discovery". Congratulations MeeJung and Logan!.
January 31st, 2017 - A manuscript, for which we contributed behavioral expertise to the Watts lab, detailing a novel inhibitor of adenylyl cyclase 1 that has analgesic properties has been accepted in Science Signaling.
January 24th, 2017 - The van Rijn lab was awarded a $15,000 HTS screening grant from the Chemical Genomics Screening Facility of the Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery to discover signaling biased delta opioid receptor drugs as novel therapy for stroke.
January 5th, 2017 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee has won a Chaney Graduate Student Travel award to attend the 48th International Narcotics Research Conference and present her research on delta-mu opioid heteromers. Congratulations!
December 14th, 2017 - Dr. Van Rijn presented a seminar titled "new ways to treat addiction - bias can be good" at the National Health Research Institute (NHRI) in Taiwan.
December 13th, 2017 - Kendall Mores received an OUR scholar award from the Purdue Office of Undergraduate Research to perform an independent research project in the Van Rijn lab. Congratulations Kendall!
December 11th, 2017 - Anna Gutridge, a new graduate student in the MCMP department has accepted a position in the Van Rijn lab. Welcome Anna!
November 30th, 2017 - A collaborative manuscript by visiting scientist Ricardo Marquez-Gomez describing evidence for the existence of heteromers between adenosine A2a and histamine H3 receptors has been accepted in the journal Pharmacological Research.
November 20th, 2017 - Congratulations to Doungkamol "Dr. Nook" Alongkronrusmee for successfully presenting and defending her thesis entitled "Identification of novel therapeutic targets for chronic pain"!
November 15th, 2017 - Meridith Robins and Mee Jung Ko presented their research at the poster session at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington DC. Meridith presented research detailing her study of the synthetic stimulant ethylphenidate (794.10/RR15). Mee Jung presented her work studying the role of delta opioid receptors in anxiety-like behavior (792.05/PP27).
November 14th, 2017 - Dr. Van Rijn presented a seminar in the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury series of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience (PIIN) titled "Alcohol-induced pain - role of aldehydes and TRPA1"
November 11th, 2017 - Congratulations to Mee Jung Ko for successfully defending her original research proposal and becoming an official PhD candidate within the Purdue University Life Sciences program. Way to go Mee Jung!!
October 2nd, 2017 - Congratulations to Meridith Robins for receiving a Kienly Award for Excellence in Teaching, for contributing as a teaching assistant to the success of the MCMP544 course on "Drug Classes and Mechanisms".
September 12th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn received a $1,700,000 5-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study "G-protein, beta-arrestin and ERK signaling in alcohol use and anxiety disorders".
July 28th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn has become a member of the executive committee of the Purdue University Interdisciplinary Life Sciences program (PULSe) and the new head of the Integrative Neuroscience training group, representing over 50 neuroscience faculty at Purdue University . He takes over the position from Dr. Cannon who now serves as the director of the PULSe program.
July 11th, 2017 - The Van Rijn lab is out in force at the annual International Narcotics Research Conference in Chicago, with Meridith Robins, Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee and Robert Cassell all presenting posters and Dr. van Rijn giving a talk in a symposium he organized on the role of opioid receptors in alcohol use disorders.
June 28th, 2017 - Meridith Robins won a very competitive and prestigious Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award at the 2017 Research Society on Alcoholism conference for her presentation entitled "Critical role of Gi-protein signaling in the dorsal striatum in the reduction of voluntary alcohol intake in C57BL/6 mice". Great accomplishment Meridith!
June 22nd, 2017 - Dove Medical Press released a press statement highlighting our recent perspective on the etiology and treatment of neuropathic pain. The press release was covered by several news sites.
June 16th, 2017 - Congratulations to Robert Cassell for successfully defending his original proposal to become a PhD candidate!
May 30th, 2017 - Congratulations to Robert Cassell, Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee and Meredith Robins for receiving travel grants to attend the 2017 International Narcotics Research Conference (INRC) in Chicago.
May 25th, 2017 - Our 2016 Plos One article on caffeine mixed alcohol was in the top 1% most downloaded articles of the year (out of 22,000 total).
May 25th, 2017 - We are 2 for 2: Meridith Robins also received the Bilsland Dissertation fellowship for her thesis research focused on stimulant and alcohol use disorders. Congratulations Meridith!
May 18th, 2017 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee received a Certificate of Excellence for her poster presentation at the Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Students spring symposium on May 3rd. Well done Nook!
May 12th, 2017 - Meridith Robins received a Paget Travel award to attend the annual Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington DC to present a poster on the "Behavioral and neurochemical analysis of novel psychoactive substance ethylphenidate exposure in adolescent male and female mice". Congrats Meridith!
May 9th, 2017 - George Takei created a video highlighting our research paper on the risks of adolescents consumption of caffeine-mixed alcohol on his facebook page. The video has already been viewed one million times. Meridith's Plos One paper has been viewed over 23,000 times within 1 year of publication.
May 9th, 2017 - Mee Jung Ko received a travel grant from the Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) to attend the annual Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington DC to present her work on delta opioid receptors and anxiety-like behavior. Congratulations Mee Jung!
May 9th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn gave a talk entitled "Strong beta-arrestin signaling may cause unwanted effects for drug treatments of alcohol use disorders" that was well received at the Alcoholism and Stress Conference in Volterra, Italy.
May 1st, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn received a summer faculty grant ($8,000) from the Purdue Research Foundation to investigate to what extent beta-arrestin signaling impacts drug-induced seizure activity. Thanks for the support!
April 18th, 2017 - Meridith Robins received a Student Merit travel award from the Research Society on Alcoholism to attend their annual meeting in Denver. Congratulations!
April 17th, 2017 - Doungkamol 'Nook' Alongkronrusmee received the Bilsland Dissertation fellowship for her thesis research focused on the identification and characterization of novel targets for (chronic) pain. Congratulations Nook!
April 14th, 2017 - Mee Jung Ko received a travel grant from the College of Science/PULSe 'Women in Science Program' to attend the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington DC. Congratulations!
April 7th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn is a co-investigator on an MCMP research enhancement award ($48,000) on a team including Drs. Watts, Lill and Flaherty to develop and characterize novel adenyly cyclase type 1 selective inhibitors for chronic pain. Thanks for the support!
March 24th, 2017 - Even when she is not feeling 100% Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee shows up to present her poster and walks away with 3rd prize at the Health and Disease poster session. Great job.
March 22nd, 2017 - Meridith Robins has been selected as one of the finalists for the Enoch Gordis graduate research recognition awards at the upcoming conference of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Denver from June 24th-28th. As a finalist, Meridith will present a poster and give an oral presentation on her research studying the effect of biased signaling in the dorsal striatum on alcohol intake. Congratulations!
March 17th, 2017 - Dr. van Rijn was interviewed in the Kelly Cutrara Show for Toronto Talk Radio AM640 to discuss policy under consideration by the Toronto Board of Health restricting marketing and sale of energy drinks to teenagers.
March 3rd, 2017 - Kendall Mores and Ji Won 'Ellen' Ha received Dean Summer Fellowships from the College of Pharmacy to perform research over the summer break. Congrats!
February 28th, 2017 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee won the first prize in the Sigma Xi Poster symposium in the Life Sciences category with a poster describing her project on disruption of delta-mu opioid heteromers. Congrats Nook!
February 27th, 2017 - Our recent collaborative publication with Dr. Watts in Science Signaling detailing the discovery of a novel AC1 selective inhibitor was featured in Science magazine.
February 15th, 2017 - MeeJung Ko and Logan Ganzen (Yuk Fai Leung lab - Biological Sciences) have been awarded a $2,000 collaborative research grant from the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience to develop a "Pharmacological Model of TRPA1-mediated Nociception in the Zebrafish for Therapeutic Discovery". Congratulations MeeJung and Logan!.
January 31st, 2017 - A manuscript, for which we contributed behavioral expertise to the Watts lab, detailing a novel inhibitor of adenylyl cyclase 1 that has analgesic properties has been accepted in Science Signaling.
January 24th, 2017 - The van Rijn lab was awarded a $15,000 HTS screening grant from the Chemical Genomics Screening Facility of the Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery to discover signaling biased delta opioid receptor drugs as novel therapy for stroke.
January 5th, 2017 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee has won a Chaney Graduate Student Travel award to attend the 48th International Narcotics Research Conference and present her research on delta-mu opioid heteromers. Congratulations!
2016
December 8th, 2016 - Our review on neuropathic pain written together with Lily Zeng MD, resident in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University, was accepted in the Journal of Pain Research.
December 8th, 2016 - We contributed to a continued education perspective on heroin use disorder and the evolving role of the pharmacist for the Indiana Pharmacist Alliance
October 13th, 2016 - Meridith Robins won a Logan travel grant to attend the 2017 annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Denver. Congratulations!
October 12th, 2016 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee won the 2016 annual Jenkins/Knevel Excellence in Research Award. Congratulations Nook!
September 30th, 2016 - Robert Cassell won 1st prize in the poster competition at the 3rd Annual Purdue Drug Discovery Symposium. Congratulations!
August 16th, 2016 - Meridith Robins has received a MCMP endowment Graduate award. Congratulations!
August 15th, 2016 - Our paper detailing the role of the delta opioid receptor in alcohol withdrawal induced hyperalgesia has been accepted by the 'Drug and Alcohol Dependence' journal.
August 12th, 2016 - Meridith Robins received a travel grant from the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience.
July 21st, 2016 - The Van Rijn lab contributed to a paper in Cell Reports detailing cross-talk between dopamine D3 receptors and calcium Cav3 channels involving beta-arrestin 2.
July 5th, 2016 - Our exciting paper showing potential risks associated with consumption of caffeinated alcohol has been published in PLOS ONE
June 20th, 2016 - Terrance Chiang received a BRAVO award from the College of pharmacy for his tireless efforts to assist and train fellow scientists in animal behavioral assays.
May 23rd, 2016 - The Van Rijn lab was awarded a pilot grant ($9,800) from the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases (PI4D) to investigate the role of selective inhibition of adenylyl cyclase I in (opioid tolerant) arthritic pain.
May 10th, 2016 - Our paper describing our investigation of adolescent energy drink consumption in mice entitled "Adolescent intake of caffeinated energy drinks does not affect adult alcohol consumption in C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice" has been accepted in the Alcohol journal.
May 2nd, 2016 - Meridith Robins won a Certificate of Excellence with her poster at the 2016 Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs spring symposium.
April 30th, 2016 - Shiqi Tang received a research recognition award at the BSPS graduation banquet. Congratulations Shiqi.
April 18th, 2016 - MeeJung showed off her presentation skills receiving a special recognition poster award for her first year poster at the annual PULSe spring symposium.
April 4th, 2016 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee was a finalist in the ASPET Molecular Pharmacology Division Best Poster Presentation Competition at the 2016 Experimental Biology conference with her poster entitled "Multipronged Approach to Investigate the Mu-Delta Opioid Receptor Heteromer Interface"!
April 4th, 2016 - MeeJung Ko, a first year graduate student in the Purdue Life Science (PULSe) program has joined the Van Rijn lab. Welcome MeeJung!
March 14th, 2016 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee was awarded a travel grant from the Purdue Graduate Student Government to attend the 2016 Experimental Biology conference in San Diego.
March 1st, 2016 - Kendall Mores received a Dean's summer undergraduate research fellowship from the College of Pharmacy.
February 1st, 2016 - Robert Cassell a first year graduate student in the Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology program, has joined the Van Rijn lab. Welcome Rob!
January 15th, 2016 - Shiqi Tang has been awarded a Frank Brown Jr travel award to attend the 2016 Experimental Biology conference in San Diego.
December 8th, 2016 - We contributed to a continued education perspective on heroin use disorder and the evolving role of the pharmacist for the Indiana Pharmacist Alliance
October 13th, 2016 - Meridith Robins won a Logan travel grant to attend the 2017 annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism in Denver. Congratulations!
October 12th, 2016 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee won the 2016 annual Jenkins/Knevel Excellence in Research Award. Congratulations Nook!
September 30th, 2016 - Robert Cassell won 1st prize in the poster competition at the 3rd Annual Purdue Drug Discovery Symposium. Congratulations!
August 16th, 2016 - Meridith Robins has received a MCMP endowment Graduate award. Congratulations!
August 15th, 2016 - Our paper detailing the role of the delta opioid receptor in alcohol withdrawal induced hyperalgesia has been accepted by the 'Drug and Alcohol Dependence' journal.
August 12th, 2016 - Meridith Robins received a travel grant from the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience.
July 21st, 2016 - The Van Rijn lab contributed to a paper in Cell Reports detailing cross-talk between dopamine D3 receptors and calcium Cav3 channels involving beta-arrestin 2.
July 5th, 2016 - Our exciting paper showing potential risks associated with consumption of caffeinated alcohol has been published in PLOS ONE
June 20th, 2016 - Terrance Chiang received a BRAVO award from the College of pharmacy for his tireless efforts to assist and train fellow scientists in animal behavioral assays.
May 23rd, 2016 - The Van Rijn lab was awarded a pilot grant ($9,800) from the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases (PI4D) to investigate the role of selective inhibition of adenylyl cyclase I in (opioid tolerant) arthritic pain.
May 10th, 2016 - Our paper describing our investigation of adolescent energy drink consumption in mice entitled "Adolescent intake of caffeinated energy drinks does not affect adult alcohol consumption in C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice" has been accepted in the Alcohol journal.
May 2nd, 2016 - Meridith Robins won a Certificate of Excellence with her poster at the 2016 Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs spring symposium.
April 30th, 2016 - Shiqi Tang received a research recognition award at the BSPS graduation banquet. Congratulations Shiqi.
April 18th, 2016 - MeeJung showed off her presentation skills receiving a special recognition poster award for her first year poster at the annual PULSe spring symposium.
April 4th, 2016 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee was a finalist in the ASPET Molecular Pharmacology Division Best Poster Presentation Competition at the 2016 Experimental Biology conference with her poster entitled "Multipronged Approach to Investigate the Mu-Delta Opioid Receptor Heteromer Interface"!
April 4th, 2016 - MeeJung Ko, a first year graduate student in the Purdue Life Science (PULSe) program has joined the Van Rijn lab. Welcome MeeJung!
March 14th, 2016 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee was awarded a travel grant from the Purdue Graduate Student Government to attend the 2016 Experimental Biology conference in San Diego.
March 1st, 2016 - Kendall Mores received a Dean's summer undergraduate research fellowship from the College of Pharmacy.
February 1st, 2016 - Robert Cassell a first year graduate student in the Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology program, has joined the Van Rijn lab. Welcome Rob!
January 15th, 2016 - Shiqi Tang has been awarded a Frank Brown Jr travel award to attend the 2016 Experimental Biology conference in San Diego.
2015
October 17-19, 2015 - The Van Rijn lab will be presenting their research at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting: Terrance Chiang and Meridith Robins will be presenting posters on Saturday October 17th from 1-5pm (posters 32.01/A62 and 50.08/F23). Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee will be presenting her poster on Monday October 19th from 8am-12pm (poster 313.13/I38).
October 12th, 2015 - Our latest paper investigating the delta opioid receptor for its potential use as therapeutic for alcohol use disorders entitled "Beta-arrestin 2 dependence of delta opioid receptor agonists is correlated with alcohol intake." has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Pharmacology.
September 1st, 2015 - Ricardo Marquez-Gomez, a third year graduate student in the research group of Dr. Jose-Antonio Arias-Montano at Mexico City's CINVESTAV, is visiting the Van Rijn Lab for 6 months to use our heteromer selective signaling assay technology. Welcome Ricardo!
August 10th, 2015 - The Van Rijn lab was awarded a NARSAD young investigator award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation to "develop novel designer GPCRs to study beta-arrestin 2 biased signal transduction in anxiety disorders".
May 8th, 2015 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee was awarded with a travel award from the International Narcotics Research Conference to attend their annual meeting.
April 27th, 2015 - Congratulations to Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee and Meridith Robins for successfully defending their original proposals and officially becoming PhD candidates.
April 23rd, 2015 - Meridith Robins has been selected to receive a Student Merit Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism.
April 1st, 2015 - Meridith Robins won a Certificate of Excellence with her poster at the 2015 Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs spring symposium.
March 13th, 2015 - Shiqi Tang received a Dean's summer undergraduate research fellowship from the College of Pharmacy.
March 5th, 2015 - Meridith Robins won 3rd prize in the Health and Disease graduate student poster competition with her poster on "Effect of adolescent caffeine and alcohol consumption on adult behavior and brain adaptations"
October 12th, 2015 - Our latest paper investigating the delta opioid receptor for its potential use as therapeutic for alcohol use disorders entitled "Beta-arrestin 2 dependence of delta opioid receptor agonists is correlated with alcohol intake." has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Pharmacology.
September 1st, 2015 - Ricardo Marquez-Gomez, a third year graduate student in the research group of Dr. Jose-Antonio Arias-Montano at Mexico City's CINVESTAV, is visiting the Van Rijn Lab for 6 months to use our heteromer selective signaling assay technology. Welcome Ricardo!
August 10th, 2015 - The Van Rijn lab was awarded a NARSAD young investigator award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation to "develop novel designer GPCRs to study beta-arrestin 2 biased signal transduction in anxiety disorders".
May 8th, 2015 - Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee was awarded with a travel award from the International Narcotics Research Conference to attend their annual meeting.
April 27th, 2015 - Congratulations to Doungkamol Alongkronrusmee and Meridith Robins for successfully defending their original proposals and officially becoming PhD candidates.
April 23rd, 2015 - Meridith Robins has been selected to receive a Student Merit Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism.
April 1st, 2015 - Meridith Robins won a Certificate of Excellence with her poster at the 2015 Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs spring symposium.
March 13th, 2015 - Shiqi Tang received a Dean's summer undergraduate research fellowship from the College of Pharmacy.
March 5th, 2015 - Meridith Robins won 3rd prize in the Health and Disease graduate student poster competition with her poster on "Effect of adolescent caffeine and alcohol consumption on adult behavior and brain adaptations"
2014
June 10th, 2014 - The Van Rijn lab was awarded $75,000 from the Ralph W & Grace M Showalter Research Trust Fund to investigate the role of delta-mu opioid receptor heteromers in pain disorders.
June 30th, 2014 - Dr. van Rijn's PhD supervisor, Dr. Rob Leurs, was listed as one of the world's most influential scientific minds in the area of pharmacology and toxicology.
June 30th, 2014 - Dr. van Rijn's PhD supervisor, Dr. Rob Leurs, was listed as one of the world's most influential scientific minds in the area of pharmacology and toxicology.