Jessica Osterhout

@osterhoutlab.bsky.social

I study the neurobiology of sickness. Asking how the immune system controls behavior. Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. Formerly at Harvard, UCSD, UofO. Osterhoutlab.com

Honored to be selected as a 2025 Pew Scholar! Grateful to the Pew for funding our work to understand how the brain decodes the immune response. @pewtrusts.org

University of Utah Health Research@uuhsresearch.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Jessica Osterhout, PhD, assistant professor of neurobiology at @utah.edu, on joining the 2025 class of Pew Scholars and Fellows. She’ll investigate how the immune system communicates with the brain during sickness. healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffair...