April 2024

Congratulations to Abby Droeger for accepting a position in the psychology graduate program at UT Austin!

March 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Somers for accepting a tenure-track faculty position at Auburn University! 

We will miss you, Jenn, but are looking forward to seeing the amazing things you’ll accomplish with your new lab!

December 2023

Welcome Sara Wong and Tiff Widjaja to the CANDY Lab!

June 2023

New UCLA Cousins Center Seed Grant!

The lab receives a pilot grant to examine how inflammatory cytokines, the expression of inflammatory genes influence neurocircuits underlying reward processing and the extent to which these processes predict antidepressant response in adolescents with depression. 

March 2023

R21 Grant received in collaboration with Dr. Yan Li at UCSF!

R21 Grant received in collaboration with Dr. Yan Li at UCSF! The project will use deuterated glucose as a probe to characterize glutamate metabolism in patients with depression using spectroscopy methods on a 7T MRI Machine

November 2022

CANDY lab moves to UCLA!

The lab has officially moved to the Department of Psychology at UCLA. Go Bruins!

June 2022

R01 Grant awarded for TIGER!

The lab has been awarded an R01 grant from the NIMH. This project will test whether stress-related influences on peripheral inflammation and cortico-limbic glutamate levels predict treatment non-response to SSRIs and 18-month clinical course in depressed adolescents. 

January 2022

Pilot Grant awarded for TIGER EARS!

The lab has been awarded a pilot grant from the UCSF Resource Evaluation and Allocation Committee to support TIGER EARS! This proof-of-concept project, “Digital Phenotyping of Adolescent Depression: Toward Scalable Biomarkers,” will test whether digitally derived behaviors obtained from passive sensing and keyboard smartphone data map onto dissociable phenotypes.