PPS Faculty Directory
Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences (PPS)
- Gregory Cuny
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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
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Mechanisms of obesity-induced kidney diseases and hypertension
- Richard Bond
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Professor of Pharmacology
Discovering or identifying better drugs for asthma
- Radbod Darabi
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, PSC differentiation, Skeletal Muscle, Gene Correction
- Jason Eriksen
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders
- Wei Gao
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Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Developing advanced nanomedicine and nanovaccine for cancer immunotherapy
- Tahir Hussain
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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
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Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Director, Core Research Laboratories & Facilities
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli, ricin, microbiology, infectious diseases, pathophysiology, cyanide
- Ashok Kumar
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Professor of Pharmacology and Else & Philip Hargrove Endowed Professor of Drug Discovery
Skeletal muscle atrophy, growth, and regeneration, satellite stem cells, cancer cachexia, signaling
- Xiang Li
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Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiovascular pharmacology, vascular cell and molecular biology, lipid biology and redox signaling
- Aditi Marwaha
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Instructional Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Student learning and retention, active learning, types of assessment and their effect on student learning
- Bradley McConnell
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Assistant Chair and Professor of Pharmacology
Biology, physiology and pharmacology of cardiac contractility and function
- Lianjie Miao
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Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Mechanisms of cardiac morphogenesis and congenital heart diseases
- Anirban Roy
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Research Assistant Professor
Skeletal muscle hypertrophy and atrophy, muscular dystrophy, muscle regeneration and muscle metabolism
- Samina Salim
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Trauma, stress, cognition, learning-memory, refugee health, racism, health disparities
- Ravi Singh
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
RNA biology, alternative splicing, cardiac and skeletal muscle metabolism, aging, mouse genetics
- MariVi Tejada-Simon
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Hippocampus-dependent learning and memory, Cognitive disabilities and neuronal morphology regulation, Fragile X syndrome
- Wei Wang
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Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Molecular pharmacology
- Yunting Wang
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiovascular pharmacology, Coronary microvascular dysfunction, vascular remodeling
- Mingfu Wu
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiomyopathy, Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC), Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), CHD
- Ruiwen Zhang
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Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Drug discovery & development, pharmacogenomics, cancer biology & therapy, pharmacology, toxicology
- Yang Zhang
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Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiovascular pharmacology, macro-/micro-vascular diseases, vascular pathology in cardiomyopathy
- Guizhen Zhao
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Cardiovascular diseases, vascular biology, metabolo-epigenetics, chromatin remodeling
Pharmaceutics
- Diana S-L Chow
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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
- Romi Ghose
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Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Hepatic drug metabolism and transport, Cytochrome P450 enzymes, drug-induced liver injury
- Bin Guo
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Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Cancer biology, cancer pharmacology, drug delivery, drug discovery
- Jiukuan Hao
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Professor of Pharmaceutics
Mechanism of neural injury, pathophysiology of the blood brain-barrier in neurodegenerative disease
- Ming Hu
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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
- Xinli Liu
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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
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Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Gut Microbiome homeostasis, drug-herb-microbiome interaction, drug delivery systems, natural products
- Rongjin Sun
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Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Drug-induced liver/intestinal toxicity, bioavailability of drug candidates, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of anti-cancer drugs
Medicinal Chemistry
- Joydip Das
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Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Alcohol addiction, structure/function of C1-domain containing proteins, protein molecular dynamics
- Thomas Hanigan
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Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Target identification, chemical proteomics, cancer metabolism and metabolic disease
- Ke-He Ruan
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Professor of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacology and Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Pharmacoinformatics (CETP)
Bioengineering active protein complexes: EnzymeLink, VaccineLink, ReceptorLink & InsulinLink
- Alexander Statsyuk
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Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Tissue Specific Drug Discovery
- Gomika Udugamasooriya
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Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
New peptidomimetic and biomarker discovery for cancer diagnosis and therapy applications
- Louis Williams
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Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Developing innovative teaching methodology for better integrating basic and clinical sciences
Joint Faculty
- Tasneem Bawa-Khalfe
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Joint, Biology and Biochemistry)
- Scott Gilbertson
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Professor of Medicinal Chemistry (Joint, Chemistry)
- Yu Liu
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Joint, Biology and Biochemistry)
- Chandra Mohan
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Professor of Pharmacology
- Vincent Tam
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Professor of Pharmaceutics/Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research
- Meghna Trivedi
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Professor of Pharmacology/Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research