Gregory Cuny

Chair and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Joseph P. & Shirley Shipman Buckley Endowed Professor of Drug Discovery
Synthetic medicinal chemistry, structure-based design, natural product chemistry

Pharmacology

Krishna Boini

Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Mechanisms of obesity-induced kidney diseases and hypertension

Radbod Darabi

Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Associate Director, Institute of Muscle Biology and Cachexia
Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, PSC differentiation, Skeletal Muscle, Gene Correction

Jason Eriksen

Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs
Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders

Wei Gao

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Developing advanced nanomedicine and nanovaccine for cancer immunotherapy

Tahir Hussain

Professor of Pharmacology, Joseph P. & Shirley Shipman Buckley Endowed Professor for the Heart & Kidney Institute, Director of the Heart & Kidney Institute, and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs
Role of angiotensin receptors in inflammation, kidney disease, blood pressure, metabolism

Dakshina (Moody) Jandhyala

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Director, Core Research Laboratories & Facilities
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli, ricin, microbiology, infectious diseases, pathophysiology, cyanide

Ashok Kumar

Professor of Pharmacology, Else & Philip Hargrove Endowed Professor of Drug Discovery, and Director, Institute of Muscle Biology and Cachexia
Skeletal muscle atrophy, growth, and regeneration, satellite stem cells, cancer cachexia, signaling

Xiang Li

Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiovascular pharmacology, vascular cell and molecular biology, lipid biology and redox signaling

Aditi Marwaha

Instructional Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Student learning and retention, active learning, types of assessment and their effect on student learning

Bradley McConnell

Assistant Chair and Professor of Pharmacology
Biology, physiology and pharmacology of cardiac contractility and function

Lianjie Miao

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Mechanisms of cardiac morphogenesis and congenital heart diseases

Anirban Roy

Research Assistant Professor
Skeletal muscle hypertrophy and atrophy, muscular dystrophy, muscle regeneration and muscle metabolism

Samina Salim

Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Trauma, stress, cognition, learning-memory, refugee health, racism, health disparities

Ravi Singh

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
RNA biology, alternative splicing, cardiac and skeletal muscle metabolism, aging, mouse genetics

MariVi Tejada-Simon

Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Hippocampus-dependent learning and memory, Cognitive disabilities and neuronal morphology regulation, Fragile X syndrome

Meiricris Tomaz da Silva

Research Scientist
Muscle regeneration and mass regulation in disease, cachexia, denervation, and aging

Wei Wang

Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Molecular pharmacology

Yunting Wang

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiovascular pharmacology, Coronary microvascular dysfunction, vascular remodeling

Mingfu Wu

Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiomyopathy, Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC), Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), CHD

Ruiwen Zhang

Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Drug discovery & development, pharmacogenomics, cancer biology & therapy, pharmacology, toxicology

Yang Zhang

Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiovascular pharmacology, macro-/micro-vascular diseases, vascular pathology in cardiomyopathy

Guizhen Zhao

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiovascular diseases, vascular biology, metabolo-epigenetics, chromatin remodeling

Pharmaceutics

Diana S-L Chow

Professor of Pharmaceutics, Paula & John J. Lovoi Sr. Endowed Professor in Drug Discovery and Development, and Director, Institute of Drug Education and Research
Pharmaceutical formulation, translational pre- and clinical PK/PD, cancer, ID and other therapies

Bin Guo

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Cancer biology, cancer pharmacology, drug delivery, drug discovery

Jiukuan Hao

Professor of Pharmaceutics
Mechanism of neural injury, pathophysiology of the blood brain-barrier in neurodegenerative disease

Ming Hu

Professor of Pharmaceutics and Diana S-L. Chow Endowed Professor of Drug Discovery and Development
Bioavailability, metabolism, transport, Phase II metabolism, cancer prevention, natural products

Airong Li

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of Cancer Therapeuticsics, Bioanalysis (LC-MS/MS)

Xinli Liu

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics and Associate Director, Institute of Drug Education and Research
Anti-cancer drug discovery and delivery, targeted drug/gene delivery, PK/PD, nanotechnology

Rashim Singh

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Gut Microbiome homeostasis, drug-herb-microbiome interaction, drug delivery systems, natural products

Rongjin Sun

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Drug-induced liver/intestinal toxicity, bioavailability of drug candidates, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of anti-cancer drugs

Medicinal Chemistry

Joydip Das

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Alcohol addiction, structure/function of C1-domain containing proteins, protein molecular dynamics

Thomas Hanigan

Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Target identification, chemical proteomics, cancer metabolism and metabolic disease

Alexander Statsyuk

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Tissue Specific Drug Discovery

Gomika Udugamasooriya

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
New peptidomimetic and biomarker discovery for cancer diagnosis and therapy applications

Louis Williams

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Developing innovative teaching methodology for better integrating basic and clinical sciences

Joint Faculty

Tasneem Bawa-Khalfe

Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Joint, Biology and Biochemistry)

Scott Gilbertson

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry (Joint, Chemistry)

Yu Liu

Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Joint, Biology and Biochemistry)

Chandra Mohan

Professor of Pharmacology

Vincent Tam

Professor of Pharmaceutics/Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research

Meghna Trivedi

Professor of Pharmacology/Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research