The Cahill Pain and Addiction is recruiting PhD students to work on multiple funded projects that include in vivo validation of novel drug targets for treating chronic pain states and to identify circuits and mechanisms underlying drug relapse in chronic pain states. Students will be trained in behavioral neuroscience paradigms that assesses drug reward and self-administration as well as assessment of pain. Additional training will include survival surgery, molecular techniques such as RNAScope, immunohistochemistry and fluorescent imaging. Important components of the training environment will be critical assessment of prior literature, grant and manuscript writing and delivering effective presentations. Our lab promotes inclusiveness, diversity and equity and acknowledges that we work on ancestral and unprecedented stolen lands from indigenous nations of the Tonga, Serrano, Kith, Tataviam and Chumash peoples.
Interested applicants should contact Dr. Catherine Cahill at cmcahill@g.ucla.edu, or visit the lab website: https://www.semel.ucla.edu/cahill-lab.