Amber L. Alhadeff, Ph.D.

Dr. Amber L. Alhadeff received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania where she worked with Dr. Harvey Grill and Dr. Matthew Hayes investigating the effects of hindbrain neuroendocrine signaling on food intake control. After receiving her Ph.D., Amber joined the laboratory of Dr. J. Nicholas Betley in the Department of Biology at Penn for her postdoctoral research. During her time in the Betley Lab, Dr. Alhadeff explored the physiological regulation of homeostatic and reward circuits in the brain. The Alhadeff Lab opened in 2020 at the Monell Chemical Senses Center and Department of Neuroscience at Penn and is focused on the gut-brain signaling dynamics underlying motivated behavior. The Alhadeff lab is funded by the NIH, the Klingenstein Fund and Simons Foundation, the American Heart Association, and the Monell Center. Amber is a recipient of the 2021 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and the 2021 Eppendorf & Science Prize in Neurobiology, and is a Pew Biomedical Scholar and a New York Stem Cell Foundation - Robertson Neuroscience Investigator.