Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Drexel University College of Medicine

Congratulations to Qiaowei for her successful defense!
June 11, 2019
Qiaowei Xie successfully defended her Master's in Drug Discovery and Development today! Her thesis work on sex differences in compulsive-like ethanol seeking was recently published at ACER - learn more here.
Qiaowei will start her PhD in Pharmacology and Physiology this fall, and we're sure many great things are yet to come!
NIDA A-START Award Funded!
May 10, 2019
We're very excited to have received a NOA for our NIDA A-START Award investigating aberrant corticostriatal circuit function in a mouse model of HIV infection. This research, in collaboration with the Gaskill Lab, will assess infection-induced alterations in compulsive-like drug seeking and underlying neurobiological substrates.

Qiaowei's research recognized at Drexel's Sex and Gender Research Forum
March 13, 2019
Congratulations to Qiaowei for receiving a poster award at the Drexel Sex and Gender Research Forum. Her research identifies sex-specific effects of chronic ethanol exposure on reward seeking despite aversive experiences.

Check out our new work on vHipp projections in the maintenance of habitual behavior
January 07, 2019
Welcome to the lab, Fangyi!
November 28, 2018
Fangyi Huang is completing her Master's in Drug Discover & Development Program as part of an undergraduate-graduate cooperation between Drexel University and China Pharmaceutical University.