Katie Bryant, PhD

So excited to be awarded a @NIH_LRP!! Big thanks to @NIAAAnews, @CC_Lapish, my letter writers, and everyone else who has supported me with this application and my research. This thing is literally life changing! 🤩

@MilianoCristina Amazing news - congratulations!!! 🎉

✨Exciting News ✨ I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a K01 Career Development Award from NIAAA! This grant will fund my research for 5 years to study the effects of the neuropeptide Cocaine- and Amphetamine-Regulated Transcript (CART II) on alcohol use disorder.

1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers. I have never felt so intimidated by my peers The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.

It seems few people know what an “indirect cost” is or why it has to be 40-60%. The reason the government forced universities to raise their indirect costs up to (typically) 40-60% was to force a huge amount of regulations on the universities while also minimizing the bookkeeping to comply with those regulations. This includes the work by contract managers, compliance lawyers, accountants, safety management, etc., who are required by the government per the terms of the contract. If universities had to allocate all those categories of labor to each contract hour-by-hour it would require too much bookkeeping, which would waste money. (I’m setting aside for now the question of whether or how much the regulations are wasting money and only discussing how you bookkeep the effort to comply with the regulations.) So to save money, while also requiring universities to do these types of work, the government requires universities to roll those categories of labor into “cost pools” that must be allocated as a percent of the technical work in each of the contracts. While the actual “overhead” might be only 15%, these pooled labor charges that are required by the government are typically much more. Second, the government doesn’t allow the universities to figure out their own indirect rates. These rates are determined by the federal government through audits every couple of years. The government then sends a document telling the university what rate to use for its cost pools. For example, the University of Colorado was told by the DHHS to use 54% (colorado.edu/controller/sit…) and U. Nebraska was told by DHHS to use 55.5% (uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/sites/UNL-Spon…). 40-60% is not only reasonable to fulfill the terms of the contract, it is the rate that the government tells the university it can charge for all the work the government requires the university to do. So if the government wants to reduce the indirect rate to 15%, then it needs to do one of these two things: Either (A) eliminate all the federal regulations that force the universities to do those categories of work (compliance, accounting, management, safety management, tracking harmful chemicals, etc.) Or, (B) stop requiring universities to pool those real costs into the “indirect cost” category and allow universities to include them in the “direct costs” of the contract. If the government chooses (A), then the safety rails have been entirely removed. (Even if the government lowers the regulations without entirely eliminating them, the costs they impose will still be real costs that probably come out to more than 15%.) Or, if it chooses (B), then the direct costs will go way up and research will actually be less efficient because all the bookkeeping, not more efficient. But if the government caps the indirect rate at 15% without doing either (A) or (B), then it will be impossible to do research for the federal government without going bankrupt. That’s the worst possible choice. It will kill research in the US. Is that what we want? I can explain it for you but I can’t understand it for you. It’s up to the reader not to be ignorant.

NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research. #Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas. nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/…

The result of this is that many institutions could not afford to perform research that delivers cures for debilitating brain conditions. I am hoping the NIH will reconsider this position, which would be especially devastating to state institutions.

#eNeuro | @ShelbyMWhite1, @CC_Lapish. et al. investigated the neural basis of impulsivity and impulse control. Using an important paradigm for assessing impulse control in rats, they discovered that disrupting anterior cingulate cortex activity during the paradigm increases impulsivity. @iupui doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO…

@brittneydawn9 Hi thanks!! Of course - DM me your email and I’ll send it over

@katiegbry Congrats 👏🏼🤩 I am preparing my first application and planning to submit to NIAAA! Would you be willing to share your application as an example?

So excited to be awarded a @NIH_LRP!! Big thanks to @NIAAAnews, @CC_Lapish, my letter writers, and everyone else who has supported me with this application and my research. This thing is literally life changing! 🤩

Excited to share our newest paper in @npp_journal that found yohimbine is a reinforcer in male and female SD rats! nature.com/articles/s4138…

@OrtelliOlivia Congrats!! 🎉🎉

I'm very excited to announce that my F31 has been funded! This grant will fund the completion of my doctoral research investigating how the brain encodes decisions to drink alcohol, even when there are also alternative non-alcohol containing beverages available🥂🥤

Happy #BINW24! 🎉 I'm Brielle 👋🏾 and I'm an asst. prof at @harvardmed and @BostonChildrens. My lab studies circuit mechanisms of attention and cognition in health and disease. 🧠 I'm also a co-founder and outgoing Programming Director for @BlackInNeuro. #BlackInNeuroRollCall

Heyyyyy y’all! I heard it’s #BiNW24! My name is Dr. Taylor McCorkle, and I am finishing up my first year as a postdoctoral fellow at Temple University in the #ASHLab where I study the neurobiology of diseases associated with maladaptive feeding in mice. #BlackInNeuroRollCall

Excited to share LIQ HDR - a home cage capacitive lickometer system for rats - equipped with custom 3D prints to capture lick microstructure in two-bottle choice drinking experiments. Now available on bioRxiv as part of a home cage drinking methods paper. shorturl.at/KZsLu

@mejoffe @NIDAnews @McClungColleen @MoussawiKhaled Congrats!! 🎉 🤩

Just received the NGA for our new @NIDAnews DP1! I am thrilled we will be able to investigate new targets in SST cells for the treatment of OUD. Major thanks to the support from @McClungColleen @MoussawiKhaled Larry Zweifel, and all who helped develop and refine this proposal!

@DrJRink @NIH_LRP @NIAAAnews @CC_Lapish Thanks Jen! 🥹

@katiegbry @NIH_LRP @NIAAAnews @CC_Lapish So well-deserved. 👏

@SiaraRouzer @NIH_LRP @NIAAAnews @CC_Lapish Thanks Siara!! congrats to you as well!! 🥳

@katiegbry @NIH_LRP @NIAAAnews @CC_Lapish Congratulations Katie!!!!

@JBarkerLab @NIH_LRP Awwww thanks Jacqui! 🥹

@AustinAColey @dgsomucla Congrats!!! 🥳

My first day as Professor Coley @dgsomucla Dream job activated ✅

@esneddon21 @brainaddiction @iaahmed123 @FrontalCortes @annyreyesNeuro Congrats!!!

I’m honored & grateful to receive the PDEP 2024 award! Huge thanks to @brainaddiction for supporting & mentoring me through this process. 🤗 Also to @iaahmed123 @FrontalCortes @JasmineKwasa & @annyreyesNeuro. Thank you for advice, encouragement, & for being wonderful peers. 💜