• How does racism make you sick?
    • Arpana Gupta, PhD, and Tien S. Dong, MD, PhD, publish new research in Biological Psychiatry on how stress, racism and discrimination impact biology.
  • UCLA Technology and Development Group (TDG) Innovation Fellowship: Sponsored by Startup UCLA, TDG, and the VCR, to help selected fellows at advancing entrepreneurial excellence and startup culture (PIs: Arpana Gupta, PhD/Tien S. Dong, MD, PhD)
    • We hope to use this opportunity to start our company ABioME, a company based on using select microbiome mixtures to develop supplements targeting the brain gut to help with specific disorders, behaviors and conditions.
  • Alterations in reward network functional connectivity are associated with increases food addiction in obese individual received 2,310 downloads, placing it in the top 100 downloaded neuroscience papers for Scientific Reports