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June 4, 2026 · Papers
With the Qiu Lab, the lab reported that a prefrontal cortex circuit projecting to the nucleus accumbens contributes to depression-like behavior after chronic social stress in mice.
Translational Psychiatry
March 1, 2026 · Lab news
Dr. Ferguson (PI), with Shenfeng Qiu, Won Hee Lee and Hee-Dae Kim, won a competitive College of Medicine – Phoenix award to acquire an Axion Maestro multielectrode-array system as a shared resource for the College.
January 1, 2026 · Lab news
Dr. Hee-Dae Kim, a long-time member of the lab, was appointed Assistant Research Professor in Basic Medical Sciences effective January 2026.
December 4, 2025 · Lab news
The US Patent and Trademark Office published the lab's application for tools that remove or modify synapses in specific neural circuits, with Deveroux Ferguson and Hee-Dae Kim as inventors.
USPTO
November 18, 2025 · Talks
Lab members Barney, Kim, and Cho presented three posters on chronic social defeat stress at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego.
Society for Neuroscience
September 1, 2024 · Papers
The lab reported that SIRT1 coordinates transcriptional regulation of neural activity in the nucleus accumbens and modulates depression-like behavior, and the paper was accompanied by an invited Commentary in the same issue.
Biological Psychiatry
November 2, 2023 · Lab news
WIPO published the international application by Deveroux Ferguson and Hee-Dae Kim, assigned to the University of Arizona, for tools that remove or modify synapses in specific neural circuits.
WIPO / Google Patents
March 27, 2023 · Press
The College of Medicine – Phoenix announced eight ABRC awards, including a three-year Arizona Investigator Grant to Dr. Ferguson for research on the molecular and circuit mechanisms of cocaine addiction. Also covered by AZBio.
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
June 8, 2021 · Awards
University of Arizona Health Sciences profiled Dr. Ferguson after Cell Mentor, a Cell Press resource, included him in its list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America.
University of Arizona Health Sciences
February 5, 2019 · Lab news
The College of Medicine – Phoenix featured Tanessa Call, a graduate student in the Ferguson lab, on receiving the Harry Lowell Swift Advancing Health Care Scholarship.
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
December 6, 2017 · Press
The College of Medicine – Phoenix announced Dr. Ferguson's NIH R01 award to study how SIRT1 in the nucleus accumbens regulates depression- and anxiety-related behavior. Also covered by AZ Big Media and EurekAlert!.
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
August 16, 2017 · Press
The College of Medicine – Phoenix reported a two-year, $422,125 NIH R21 to Drs. Shenfeng Qiu and Deveroux Ferguson, with postdocs Jing Wei and Hee-Dae Kim, to study neural circuit mechanisms of major depression using optogenetics.
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
April 1, 2017 · Papers
Dr. Ferguson wrote a sole-authored invited commentary in Biological Psychiatry (81:e47–e48) on a study of cocaine and striatal plasticity published in the same issue.
Biological Psychiatry
March 9, 2017 · Press
Dr. Ferguson wrote a research summary for the Society for Neuroscience's Neuronline platform describing his lab's 2016 Journal of Neuroscience findings on SIRT1 in the nucleus accumbens.
SfN Neuronline
November 10, 2016 · Press
The State Press interviewed Dr. Ferguson about his SIRT1 findings and their potential to inform antidepressants that do not act through monoamine pathways.
The State Press
September 1, 2016 · Press
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation covered the lab's Journal of Neuroscience study showing that SIRT1 in the nucleus accumbens regulates depression-like behavior in mice under chronic social stress.
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
August 9, 2016 · Press
Science News reported on the lab's finding that SIRT1 in the nucleus accumbens contributes to depression-like behavior in mice, quoting Dr. Ferguson.
Science News
January 14, 2015 · Press
The College of Medicine – Phoenix profiled Dr. Ferguson and his research using animal models to identify genes linked to the onset of depression and to resilience.
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
November 25, 2014 · Press
ScienceDaily covered a Nature study from the Nestler lab at Mount Sinai on beta-catenin and stress resilience, on which Dr. Ferguson was a co-author.
ScienceDaily
January 1, 2012 · Awards
Dr. Ferguson received a 2012 NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
June 30, 2009 · Awards
CSRwire carried the UNCF/Merck Science Initiative announcement naming Dr. Ferguson, then at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, among 37 recipients of its 2009 scholarships and fellowships.
CSRwire
November 8, 2006 · Press
Stanford School of Medicine reported on gene-therapy work from the Sapolsky lab that improved memory and learning in stressed animals, published in the Journal of Neuroscience with Dr. Ferguson as a co-author during his doctoral training.
Stanford School of Medicine News