Alexandra Chisholm, PhD

Currently, I work as a postdoctoral fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai under the supervision Dr. Yasmin Hurd where I am investigating the neural mechanisms by which cannabidiol (CBD) reduces relapse to opiates. I utilize a multi-pronged approach combining in vivo region specific and cell type specific projection imaging with RNA (bulk and single cell)  combined with ATAC sequencing to characterize the molecular transcriptome and epigenome associated with opioid relapse prior to and following treatment with cannabidiol.