Chuchu Zhang
@zhang_chuchu
Assistant Professor @UCLA neuroscience and physiology; mom of twins+1. Also @chuchuzhang.bsky.social
Happy to announce that I will start my assistant professor position at @UCLA this fall! My lab will work on internal sensations, with a unique focus on nausea mechanisms: chuchuzhanglab.com. Please RT and encourage people interested in postdoc positions to apply!
Hot ones spicy level competition in the lab. Thanks to Ashley! We documented interoceptive sensations in our gut as spice level increases. The winners, no genotyping for a month.
Grateful for the opportunity @Hypothesisfund !
5/5 Awardee @zhang_chuchu explores how different body states (like pregnancy) may change what neurons sense & how they respond. Her work may lead to new ways to address nausea associated w/ pregnancy🤰, chemo, & infections. 🍾Congrats Dr. Zhang! @dgsomucla 🙏 #HFScout @pipethero
I wrote an Op-Ed about the government's attacks on Harvard. Please share with anybody who thinks these attacks help anybody. prosyn.org/PhWi74r?h=KyJ1…
New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Open Access Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158… News and Views: nature.com/articles/d4158… Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05-t…
I find it amusing that these days the whole lab just leave in front of me to lunch without asking - I’m definitely the boss outsider now.
Thrilled for the Zhang Lab to receive the Whitehall Foundation grant to investigate the neural mechanisms of nausea!
Wow, wow, wow!!! The structure of human sweetness cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on…
A powerful and personal editorial from Nobel laureate @ardemp: "I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger." Please read and share. cnn.com/2025/04/09/hea…
Basic science is inspired by curiosity, accountable to evidence, and subject to peer review. Politics should have no role.
R01 resubmission was a waste. 3 years of work. 12 percentile on first submission and now it will not get reviewed. Trying to keep chin up and move forward is daunting. This storm is perfect to wipe out early stage investigators.
Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities. Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do? wesa.fm/health-science…
Very honored to be selected as a Sloan Fellow. Grateful for my mentors, colleagues, and my lab.
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/20…
I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply pass on the buck to investigators. Many of us fervently agree that university administrations & bureaucracy should be downsized and reformed. This maneuver…
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above…
Congrats!
The winner of the 2025 Pradel Research Award is Anne Churchland of @UCLA! She is being honored for expanding understanding of the neural circuits that support decision making. Learn more about her discoveries: nasonline.org/award/pradel-r… #NASaward #neuroscience
Another open search for UCLA: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10062
First review from the lab on nausea and area postrema: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…
It is just so sad that the #NeurIPS2024 main conference ended with such a racist remark by a faculty when talking about ethics. How ironic! I also want to commend the Chinese student who spoke up right on spot. She was respectful, decent, and courageous. Her response was…
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How to survive without water for months without feeling thirsty? A new manuscript by Maddy Junkins in the Gracheva lab: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
First lab holiday party 🎉 And I can’t believe it but my first grad student just passed her qualifying exam 🙌🏻. #milestone #newPI
