Faces of Drug Abuse Research: Yasmin L Hurd, Ph.D.

Yasmin L. Hurd, Ph.D. is Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics as well as Psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Medical Center (PubMed; Hurd Lab; Department; Research Crossroads) .
As is overviewed on the “research” tab of her webpage, Professor Hurd has longstanding interests in mesocorticolimbic areas that are affected by drugs of abuse. Her areas of concentration include the in vivo neurochemical responses to drugs, the influence of drugs on fetal brain development and the molecular and biochemical changes that might be associated with dependence.
Professor Hurd obtained her doctorate in 1989 from the Karolinska…Okay, right there your brain should go ‘click‘.

YHN is clearly losing it

I find myself in complete agreement with something MsPhD posted at Young Female Scientist:

1. NIH should allow ANYONE AND EVERYONE with a PhD to apply for ALL GRANTS.

Yeah. Open marketplace to compete with your scientific ideas, no gatekeepers like search committees and deans, eh? and in some senses isn’t the K99/R00 most of the way there?
Am I really agreeing with MsPhD?
okay, okay, phew. I have some disagreements with the rest of the post, all is well.
but then I happened across an earlier bit:

My thesis lab went broke when I was about halfway through grad school. I didn’t know how much more I needed to do, or what it would cost, much less how much longer it would take.
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Anyway so back in grad school when this happened, the dean gave me some good advice. He told me to put my nose to the grindstone. So I did. That was good for a variety of reasons I won’t go into here. It was also bad in some ways I regret more now than I did then. But mostly it was good, and I’m not sure my thesis would have turned out the way it did if I hadn’t. I think of my thesis as a solid piece of work, and it’s at least partly due to that grindstone-on-nose effect.
I think the key thing was that I was so determined to graduate and show those fuckers in my department that I could do it on the cheap, that I ended up convincing not just them but also myself.

wait…did I say “bit”? I meant epic. As in Beowulf. Go read the whole thing.
It makes sense to me.
Clearly I am losing it.