News 2022

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