Cynthia Moreton Kuhn

About

Cynthia Moreton Kuhn is a Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University. She also holds positions as a Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and is a Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. Additionally, she is a member of the Duke Cancer Institute and an Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. Her work is associated with the Duke Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and she is based at 308 Research Drive, Durham, NC. Her roles involve research and teaching within these interdisciplinary fields, contributing to the advancement of pharmacology, cancer biology, and behavioral sciences.

Research topics

• Biology
• Medicine
• Clinical psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Psychiatry
• Physiology
• Internal medicine
• Psychology
• Endocrinology
• Environmental health

Selected publications

• Maternal diet disrupts the placenta–brain axis in a sex-specific manner

  Nature Metabolism · 2022 · 89 citations

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• The role of sex in the persistent effects of adolescent alcohol exposure on behavior and neurobiology in rodents

  International review of neurobiology · 2021 · 35 citations

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• Novel mucosal adjuvant, mastoparan-7, improves cocaine vaccine efficacy

  npj Vaccines · 2020-02-05 · 30 citations

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  Abstract Cocaine is one of the most potent and addictive psychostimulants known and there are no available pharmacotherapies to treat cocaine addiction. Here we describe a novel cocaine vaccine employing the mucosal adjuvant and mast cell-activating oligopeptide, mastoparan-7 (M7), to achieve optimal IgA antibody responses in mucosal secretions and effective induction of humoral immunity using a short immunization protocol. This formulation, using a hapten-carrier system to deliver cocaine as an…

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• Sex and race differences of cerebrospinal fluid metabolites in healthy individuals

  Metabolomics · 2021-01-18 · 29 citations

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• The effects of peri-adolescent alcohol use on the developing hippocampus

  International review of neurobiology · 2021-01-01 · 15 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01DA002739

  NIH · $1.9M · 1999

• NIH Grant R01DA019114

  NIH · $1.3M · 2010

• Genes, environmental stressors, and the biobehavioral pathways to CVD

  NIH · $62.6M · 1993–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Saul M. Schanberg

  233 shared

• Redford B. Williams

  Duke University

  142 shared

• Tiffany Field

  University of Miami

  129 shared

• Ilene C. Siegler

  Duke University

  101 shared

• Richard S. Surwit

  95 shared

• Mark N. Feinglos

  88 shared

• Maria Hernandez‐Reif

  University of Alabama

  88 shared

• Miguel Diego

  77 shared

Education

• postdoctoral research, Pharmacology

  University of North Carolina

  1978

• PhD, Physiology and Pharmacology

  Duke University

  1976

• BA, Biology

  Stanford University

  1970

Similar researchers at Duke University

• Christopher Bang Newgardh-175
• Donald Patrick McDonnellh-119
• Theodore Alan Slotkinh-102