News & Updates  

Please join us in congratulating Hyoung-Ro for receiving a prestigious award from the William and Katharine Duhamel Addiction Medicine...

We’re pleased to announce that our lab has received funding from ARIA, an autism research initiative funded by the Sergei Brin Family...

We’re proud to share that Neir has been named a 2025 One Mind Rising Star Awardee! This prestigious honor recognizes his compelling...

We're devastated to say goodbye to Teema, who has been a stalwart of the STAAR Lab for the past 2 years. To send her off on her next...

We’re excited to welcome Hyoung-Ro to the STAAR Lab as our newest postdoctoral researcher, and celebrated his arrival with a cozy lunch...

The STAAR Lab is very excited to welcome our newest research technician - May! The STAAR Lab went to the fabulous Tootsie's to celebrate...

We are excited to share that Neir has been awarded an NIH R01 grant to support our research on the neural mechanisms of social reward and...

A huge congratulations to Daniel on his groundbreaking Nature paper, “Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and...

Daniel is leaving to Harvard for his second post-doc with Nao Uchida (Neir's PhD advisor), and was elected to the prestigious Harvard...

Jonas, a visiting researcher in our lab, successfully earned his Master’s degree at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He defended...