From prison to Stanford postdoc – a journey in recovery
By Holly MacCormick Researcher joins Stanford Medicine as a postdoctoral scholar in the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab to help others overcome addiction and incarceration. Noel Vest’s career in science started not long after he walked out of prison on June 28, 2009. 2009 and 2010 were pivotal time for Vest, as a Stanford News story explains, He’d just completed […]
Stanford’s resilient researcher
by Alex Kekauoha Noel Vest, PhD, hasn’t let his past experiences with addiction and incarceration keep him from a science career. He recently joined Stanford Medicine as a postdoctoral scholar in the Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab, focusing on research and public policy. One day in January of 2002, Noel Vest’s mother was at home […]