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Laboratory Members

Colin N. Haile, M.D., Ph.D., Research Associate Professor. Co-director of the Michael C. Gibson Addiction Research Program and Director of Operations, UH Animal Behavior Core

Richard A. Meisch, M.D. Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at UH

Thomas R. Kosten, M.D., Professor in Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and Research Professor of Psychology at UH

Shadab Forouzan, graduate student and Ph.D. candidate

Keely McGrew, graduate student

Miah Baker, Research Assistant

Saif Quadri, Research Assistant

Undergraduate research assistants: Veronica Morgan, Bryan Ubanwa,Samir Mukhi, Rija Farhan, Rohail Siddiqi, Humayd Mirza, Uchenna Inoma, Brendan Traynor     

Collaborators

Greg Cuny, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UH

Joydip Das, Ph.D., Professor in Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UH

Kristi L. Hoffman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research at Baylor College of Medicine

David A. Nielsen, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine

Former members

Steven J. Nieto, Ph.D., NIH F31 Predoctoral training award recipient. Former graduate student currently a post-doctoral fellow at UCLA

Odochi Nwoko, Ph.D., post-doctoral associate

Cana B. Quave, 2017 Recipient of the UH Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) award and a Psi Chi Grant awardee. Former undergraduate research assistant currently enrolled in graduate school at UT Heath Science Center

Sergio Sanchez, Former Research assistant currently enrolled at Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine