Paul Kenny receives the Daniel H. Efron Research Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (December 2018).

Jessica Ables presents poster at ACNP: “Exploring the role of the Habenula-IPN in Affective States in Diabetes” (December 2018).

Richard O’Connor receives a Travel award to attend the 2019 Winter Conference on Brain Research in Snowmass, CO (2018).

Stephanie Caligiuri presents poster on “The α5 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit May Mediate Anxiety and Alcohol Reinforcement through Progesterone Signaling in the Interpeduncular Nucleus in a Sex Specific Manner” at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA (November 2018).

Richard O’Connor receives a Rolls-Simons travel award from The Obesity Society to attend Obesity Week 2018 in Nashville, TN (November 2018)

Alexandra DiFeliceantonio presents on “When a calorie is not a calorie: fat and carbohydrate combinations potentiate measures of reinforcement independently of caloric load” at the  Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting (November 2018)

Richard O’Connor receives the Center for Neurotechnology and Behavior at Mount Sinai travel award to attend Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. (November 2018)

Victor Mathis, Stephanie Caligiuri, Clementine Fillinger and Paul Kenny present their poster on “A prefronto-habenular circuit involved in stress-induced reinstatement” at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), San Diego, CA (November 2018)

Stephanie Caligiuri, Victor Mathis, Maria Vittoria Micioni Bonaventura, and Paul Kenny present their poster on “The α5 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit May Mediate Anxiety and Alcohol Reinforcement through Progesterone Signaling in the Interpeduncular Nucleus in a Sex Specific Manner” at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), San Diego, CA (November 2018).

Alex Smith receives the 2018 Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant in Addiction (October 2018).

Jessica Ables is named a Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience (April 2018).

Stephanie Caligiuri presents poster on “The α5 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit May Mediate Anxiety and Alcohol Reinforcement through Progesterone Signaling in the Interpeduncular Nucleus in a Sex Specific Manner”  Neuroscience Retreat, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY (April 2018).

Alex Smith serves as Symposium Chair for “MMP-9 in Psychiatric Disease” during the American Society for Neurochemistry Annual Meeting (March 2018).

Ashley Lepack receives the Best Speaker Prize, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Annual Neuroscience Retreat (March 2018).

Ashley Lepack receives the Hausfeld Award (recognizing the most outstanding Neuroscience PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai).

Ashley Lepack receives the  National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Research Service Award (NRSA), 2018 – 2020.

Paul Kenny received the MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Paul Kenny is elected a Senior Editor for The Journal of Neuroscience.

Paul Kenny is elected a Member of the National Institutes of Health, Council of Councils.

Jessica Ables receives the NIMH Outstanding Resident (July 2017).

Alex Smith receives the NIDA National Research Service Award (F32 NRSA)

Victor Mathis receives a Postdoctoral fellowship for “L’habénula latérale, une structure impliquée dans l’adaptation comportementale liée au stress?” from the Fondation pour la recherche medical, France.

Victor Mathis receives a Postdoctoral fellowship for the “study of the involvement of the lateral habenula in behavioral adaption in stressful conditions” from the Fondation Fyssen, France.

Stephanie Caligiuri receives the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship (September 2016).

Richard O’Connor is the recipient of the 2016 Pfizer, Inc. Postdoctoral Fellowship.  The award presentation ceremony will take place during the Obesity Society’s annual scientific meeting in New Orleans, LA in November.  The fellowship will focus on “Central Control of Obesity, with an emphasis on mechanistic studies to deepen our basic understanding of the homeostatic and reward neurocircuitries underlying food intake” (August 2016).

Diane Damez-werno and Richard O’Connor receive Mentor Recognition from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Center for Excellence in Youth Education for the Lloyd Sherman Scholars Program (August 2016).

Richard O’Connor receives a Postdoctoral fellowship from The Obesity Society (2016).

Richard O’Connor receives Best poster presented by a Postdoctoral Researcher at the 2016 International Behavioural Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary (June 2016).

Richard O’Connor receives a Travel award to attend the 2016 International Behavioural Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting in Budapest, Hungary (2016).

Paul Kenny received the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grant, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (December 2015).

Molly Heyer and Alex Smith presented at the 2015 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Annual Meeting in Hollywood, Fl (December 2015).

Alex Duncan, Molly Heyer, Sietse Jonkman, Alex Smith, and George Voren presented posters at the 2015 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Conference in Chicago, Il (October 2015).

Ryan Hakim, NIDA Summer Intern, was selected to present his summer research internship project in the Kenny Lab to the NIDA staff in Bethesda, MD (September 2015).

Paul Kenny received the Tom Connor Distinguished Investigator Award at the 9th Neuroscience Ireland Conference on Frontiers in Neuroscience: Diseases and Treatments (September 2015).

Paul Kenny was an invited Mars Keynote Speaker for the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) annual conference (July 2015).

Paul Kenny was a speaker and session chair at the Janelia Conference on Motivational Circuits in Natural and Learned Behaviors (March 2015).

Paul Kenny was the distinguished guest speaker at the third annual Waggoner Center for Alcohol/Addiction Research Conference at the University of Texas at Austin (March 2015).

Paul Kenny was elected a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP).

Paul Kenny was elected as Member of the Advisory Council for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

Paul Kenny was a presenter during the NIDA Mini Convention (November 2015) and presented his talk on Circulating microRNAs as Addiction Biomarkers during the Extracellular RNAs in Neuroscience: Biology, Biomarkers and Therapeutics session.

Paul Kenny was an invited speaker at the Nebraska Research and Innovation Neuroscience Conference (September 2014) . His talk was on Mechanisms Underlying Motivational Properties of Nicotine.

Paul Kenny was an Invited Speaker at the Molecular Basis of Addiction: Synaptic Modification (with Marc Caron, and David Sulzer), American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ASBMB), San Diego (April 2014). His talk was on Molecular Basis of Addiction: Synaptic Modification.

Paul Kenny gave a Basic Science Theme Lecture (February 2014) on New Insights into the Mechanisms of Compulsive Nicotine Intake during the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Conference in Seattle, Washington.

Paul Kenny received the Mathilde Solowey Lecture Award in the Neurosciences Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, hosted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIH).

Paul Kenny received the Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award for Innovative Research in Drug Addiction and Alcoholism from the Society for Neuroscience.