National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program

Current lab members

Satoshi Ikemoto, Ph.D.

Chief, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
Satoshi.Ikemoto@nih.gov

Ahmed Badawi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
ahmed.badawi@nih.gov

Marc Fakhoury, Ph.D.

Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
marc.fakhoury@nih.gov

Celine Nicolas, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
celine.nicolas@nih.gov

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Reuben Don

Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
reuben.don@nih.gov

Sue Junn

Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
sue.junn@nih.gov

Christian Potter

Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
christian.potter@nih.gov

Post-doc Alumni

Abraham Zangen, PhD (09/1999 – 09/2003)

left for Weismann Institute of Science, Israel

Mei Qin, MD, PhD (05/2004 – 09/2005)

left for NIMH

Zhonghua Liu, PhD (09/2004 – 08/2006)

left for NIMH

Rick Shin, PhD (11/2005 – 02/2009)

left for Astellas Research Institute of America

Junran Cao, PhD (11/2006 – 10/2008)

left for University of Virginia

Thomas C. Jhou, PhD (09/2008 – 07/2010)

left for Medical University of South Carolina

Mingliang Tang, PhD (09/2009 – 06/2010)

left for Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Anton Ilango, PhD (06/2011 – 07/2014)

left for Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany

Dong Wang, PhD (07/2011 – 08/2017)

left for Drexel University

Post-bac Alumni

Brian Witkin (02/2001 – 05/2003)

left for Tulane University

Kathleen Donahue (07/2003 – 06/2004)

left for Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine

Reagan Wetherill (07/2003 – 05/2004)

left University of Texas-Austin

David Horton (06/2004 – 05/2005)

left for University of Kentucky

Ian Macumber (07/2004 – 06/2005)

left for University of Massachusetts

Lynnsay Marsan (01/2008 – 12/2008)

left for Pennsylvania State University

Shengping Xu (06/2008 – 05/2011)

left for George Washington University

Sierra Webb (07/2008 – 06/2010)

left for University of California at Santa Barbara

Fiori Vollrath-Smith (06/2009 – 05/2011)

left University of Maryland

Kristine Keller (09/2010 – 08/2012)

left for University of Maryland

Carl Broker (06/2012 – 05/2014)

left for University of Rochester

Andrew Kesner (05/2012 – 05/2014)

left for the Johns Hopkins-NIH Graduate Partnership Program

Aaron Tan (06/2014 – 05/2016)

left for Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Aleksandr Talishinsky (10/2014 – 06/2016)

left for Weill Cornell Medical College

Anne Pierce (10/2015 – 06/2017)

left for University of Colorado

Graduate Student Alumni

Chen Yang (01/2014 – 03/2015)

left for Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu hospital and lecturer at The Fourth Military Medical University, China

Andrew Kesner (05/2015 – 12/2018)

left for NIAAA