news
2026
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lab pre-print up! we find that thyroid hormone levels respond to stressful experience in humans — measured 20 years later. Ralph Lawton and colleagues followed people who were living on the coast of Aceh, Indonesia when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck, first surveyed before the disaster and tracked ever since. two decades on, those from the hardest-hit communities have lower levels of active thyroid hormone, altered links between thyroid hormone, body composition, and cortisol, and higher cardiometabolic risk: a lasting hormonal imprint of stress, and a candidate pathway from stressful experience to long-term disease. read it on bioRxiv!
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thank you to the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center for a frontiers program award, supporting brain-specific modulation of thyroid hormone levels for the treatment of depression.
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welcome Genevieve Hulshof, who joins the lab as a graduate student from the PiN program!
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welcome Jessica Co, rotation student from the PiN program!
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honored to be selected for the MIND prize! this prize will support our work on brain endocrine states relevant to neurodegeneration.
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welcome Yidong Song, PhD rotation student from the BBS program!
2025
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welcome Aurora Ferrell, PhD rotation student from the PiN program!
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welcome Genevieve Hulshof, PhD rotation student from the PiN program!
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first lab publication! new review out in Current Biology.
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welcome Rohan Savani, PhD rotation student from the PiN program!
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thank you to the Simons Foundation for supporting our work on age-related hormonal changes and how this shapes cognitive functions over the lifespan.
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lab gets first grants! thank you Harvard Brain Initiative and QFASTR — supporting work on, respectively, hormonal modulation of reward signaling, and high throughput screening efforts.
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welcome Zach Barsdale, our first graduate rotation student from the PiN program!
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lab opens! we are hiring at all levels — interested? please get in touch.