Cathy Cahill

Last morning before back to reality

Sunday, November 9, 2025, Cure Addiction Now is sponsoring a free event open to the public. This is a chance to listen to a panel of scientists discuss many latest advances in helping to cure addiction. See registration link: cureaddictionnow.org/the-raw-trut... #CAN, #SUD, #CureAddictionNow

If anyone has a lab manual they are willing to share (or even in part), please send to cmcahill@ucla.edu.
I’m specifically interested in graduate and undergraduate expectations, lab culture and safety.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Fantastic news!!

Found someone! Thanks Christie Fowler!

Any ACNP full members that still have an invite available to sponsor me to go this year?

Trump administration reverses course, lifts pause on NIH grant awards The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.

Can someone provide further insight/analysis of this announcement ? www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t...

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

Decreased KCC2 expression in the human spinal dorsal horn... : PAIN date there is no evidence supporting or opposing this hypothesis in humans. Here, we demonstrate that KCC2 expression is decreased in superficial dorsal horn neurons of organ donors who died with a do...

Our paper showing decreased KCC2 expression in the human spinal cord in people who died with a history of neuropathic pain is now published in PAIN: journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac... Great work from @oliviadavis.bsky.social and the teams of the De Koninck and Hildebrand labs. ❤️ 🇨🇦 collabs!

Does anyone know if this means that NIH grants terminated due to DEI might be reinstated?

Congratulations to all my undergraduate students who presented today at the Semel undergrad poster day! All did so well and should be very proud of their accomplishments! Great day for the Cahill Lab!!

Further evidence (as if you needed any more!) that people should quit X as their platform.

This was driven by my very talented graduate student Myra!

A study on the effectiveness of diaphragmatic breathing on craving in e-cigarette users The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of diaphragmatic breathing technique on current craving and stress levels in e-cigarette users.

I'm advertising for my daughter to recruit subjects for her Master's thesis. I'd very much appreciate a repost. She's exploring how a simple mindfulness technique could help reduce cravings and stress levels for daily e-cigarette users.
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Is there any evidence that protracted withdrawal precipitated by opioid dependence is worse if you precipitate withdrawal with naloxone versus undergoing spontaneous withdrawal?

Canada offers fellowships to foreign grad students and postdocs. Have a look and share with anyone who could be interested or who is affected by the current situation in the US.

On Tyranny - YouTube

I just listened to the first lesson on tyranny (outstanding). Fellow scientists, we should all add DEI values and pronouns to our lab websites. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

On March 15th, many people will mail Donald Trump a postcard that publicly expresses opposition to him. Everyone has their own motives to be upset with his bad leadership decisions. I will send more than one: Protection of Science, National Parks, Transgender rights and Foreign policy.

Today! Stand up for science! We had a great turn out in Westwood federal building!

Please see our article on the safety profile of SSRIs in pregnancy - reviewing clinical literature. An important area that needs much more work!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...