Nikolas was selected to receive the prize of the Schlumberger Foundation for Education and Research and join the select group of FSER laureates (CercleFSER) that defends and promotes pure research.

Our team was awarded 1.5 million € through the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to work for the next 5 years towards understanding how neuromodulator combinations define our internal states.

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A full house at our first poster presentations as a team at the FENS Forum 2024.
An amazing experience for our budding scientists! ✨

Loussineh Keshishian successfully completed her M.Sc. thesis internship in the lab and submitted her thesis with the title: "Noradrenergic neuromodulation of neuronal dynamics and behavior".

Our lab is opening its doors in January 2024!
Get in touch if you would like to join us!

Our team is awarded a NARSAD Grant for 2 years by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, to study the network effects of psychedelics and their mechanisms of their therapeutic action for depression.

Nikolas is appointed as tenured researcher (chargé de recherche) at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM).

We have received funding from the prestigious ATIP-Avenir program, organized jointly by CNRS and Inserm.

Following a long evaluation process from the international scientific evaluation board of the Paris Brain Institute, it has been decided that Nikolas will join the institute as a new team leader.
We have received generous funding from the institute to establish the new team and we look forward to setting up the team in the coming year.

We have received funding from the prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione program to implement our research program as an independent group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Basel, Switzerland.