Vijay Samineni
vijaysamineni.bsky.social
Vijay Samineni
@vijaysamineni.bsky.social
Neuroscientist | Assistant Professor @WashU | https://saminenilab.wustl.edu | Opinions are my own
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⚡️🧠A nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway modulating affective-motivational pain

Now published on the cover of Science Advances @science.org

Check it out 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reposted by Vijay Samineni
The NIH is asking scientists and the public to comment on plans to drastically limit animal model research. If you think animal models remain important tools for basic and clinical research tell them! Click the link below and scroll down to send your comments!

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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
July 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Vijay Samineni
Does everyone know there is a comment period re: changes in animal research at NIH? I didn't. Closes July 14. The scientific community need to respond en masse. I asked university leadership to distribute to reach our colleagues not on social media, you can too

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FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
go.pardot.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Excited to see this finally out! Projection-TAGs allows you to do multiplex high-throughput multi-modal profiling of projection neurons. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Projection-TAGs enable multiplex projection tracing and multi-modal profiling of projection neurons - Nature Communications
Tools to simultaneously trace multiple neuronal projections and/or profile projection neurons for multi-modal investigations are lacking. Here authors introduce Projection-TAGs, a retrograde AAV platf...
www.nature.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reposted by Vijay Samineni
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM