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- Christine Liu receives a prestigious Larry L. Hillblom Foundation Fellowship to pursue her work in the Riera lab on the role of Cholecystokinin-expressing hypothalamic circuits in metabolic regulation and weight gain.
- Christine Liu receives the 2026 Cedars-Sinai Center for Neural Science and Medicine postdoctoral fellowship.
Celine Riera receives a Pilot Award from the Cedars-Sinai Center on Aging and Diabetes for her work on the neurobiology of aging entitled "Therapeutic Interventions Targeting Hypothalamic Dysfunction in Aging."
- ScienceNewsNet: Unlocking the Brain’s Stress-Eating Connection
- The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc.: Celine Riera awarded a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience
- Larry L Hillblom Foundation Advancing Medical Knowledge: Celine Riera receives a Start-Up Grant in Aging Research
- University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine Diabetes Research Center: Celine Riera receives a 2018 Pilot and Feasibility Grant in Endocrinology & Diabetes
- CBS News: Is sense of smell linked to being fatter or thinner?
- Science: Mice shed weight when they can’t smell—but not because they stop eating
- EurekAlert!: Mice lacking a sense of smell stay thin
- Los Angeles Times: Does my sense of smell make me look fat? In mice, the answer seems to be yes
- Berkeley News: Smelling your food makes you fat
- diaTribe: Exclusive interviews with the 2015 ADA Pathway initiative award winners
- Science: Mice that feel less pain live longer
- National Geographic: No pain, no aging
- The Scientist: No pain, big gain
- Berkeley News: Pain killers may improve health of diabetics and the obese
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