Seena Ajit, PhD

Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of neuropathic and inflammatory pain, epigenetic regulation, microRNA expression and regulation, biomarkers

Jacqueline Barker, PhD

Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Addiction, learning and memory, behavioral neuroscience, habits, compulsivity, sex differences, drug and alcohol exposure, substance and alcohol use disorders

Linda Console-Bram, PhD, MS

Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Endogenous cannabinoid and putative cannabinoid receptors in substance use disorders, pain, anxiety and immune function.

Alessandro Fatatis, MD, PhD

Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating metastatic potential of solid tumors, studies in vitro and in animal models of neoplastic disease

Peter Gaskill, PhD

Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: HIV, drug abuse, neuroimmunity, neurotransmission, macrophage immunology, dopamine, serotonin, catecholamines

Laura Giacometti, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Sex differences, estrous cycle, astrocytes, behavioral neuroscience, drug and alcohol exposure, HIV

Edward Hartsough, PhD

Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Mechanisms contributing to metastatic progression and susceptibility of cancers to targeted inhibitors

Joel Horwitz, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Nitric oxide signaling, pharmacology education

Joshua Jackson, PhD

Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Astrocyte biology, neuro-glial interactions, neurovascular coupling, synaptic development, calcium signaling, mitochondrial dynamics, brain metabolism

Jennifer Kelschenbach, PhD

Research Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: HIV neurocognitive impairment, substance use disorder, neuroimmune interactions, animal models of HIV, blood brain barrier dysfunction

Zachary Klase, PhD

Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Molecular neuropathogenesis of HIV-1, epigenetic control of transcription and microRNA involvement in viral diseases

Joanne Mathiasen, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology; Co-director, Drug Discovery & Development Program
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: CNS drug discovery, behavioral pharmacology, neuropharmacology, pain and cognition

Stephanie Matt, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: HIV pathogenesis, myeloid biology, neuroimmunology, psychiatric disease, antidepressant pharmacology, aging, epigenetic regulation

Paul McGonigle, PhD

Professor; Co-director, Interdisciplinary & Career-Oriented Programs; Director, Drug Discovery & Development Program
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: CNS drug discovery, receptor pharmacology, behavioral pharmacology, neuropharmacology

Olimpia Meucci, MD, PhD

Professor & Chair
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders and drug abuse, chemokine-based therapeutics, neuroprotective pathways in neuroinflammation

Andréia C.K. Mortensen, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Excitatory amino acid transporters, astrocytes, neurological disorders, excitotoxicity, allosteric modulation, stroke, epilepsy, neuropathic pain

Ole Mortensen, PhD

Associate Professor; Director, Pharmacology & Physiology Graduate Program
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Neurotransmitter transporters, drug addiction and affective disorders

Brian Murphy, PhD

Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Early-stage drug discovery, obesity, diabetes, lung and liver fibrosis, second messenger regulation of GPCRs, receptor binding kinetics

Beverly A. Reyes, DVM, PhD

Research Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Interactions between opioids, stress and noradrenergic system; interactions between endocannabinoids and noradrenergic systems

Gabriele Romano, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Cancer drug resistance; tumor suppressor genes; immune evasion; chemokine signaling; computational biology; functional genomics; HIV and cancer; nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery

Robert Rosenberg, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Cellular and molecular neurophysiology, electrophysiology, structures and function of ion channels

Jennifer Ross, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Stress; psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease; amyloid beta peptide production and release; dense core vesicles; noradrenergic influence on large-scale network dynamics

Antonio Sanz-Clemente, PhD

Associate Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Synaptic protein content, glutamate receptors, synaptic/extrasynaptic NMDA receptor balance, excitotoxicity, excitatory neurotransmission, synaptic maturation, autism spectrum disorder, post-translational modifications

Kenny Simansky, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry; Senior Vice Dean for Research
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology, Psychiatry
Research Interests: Cellular mechanisms involved in regulation of eating

Robert Sterling, PhD

Professor; Co-director, Interdisciplinary and Career-Oriented Programs; Director, Graduate Programs in Clinical Research
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Substance use disorders, opioid use disorder, applied psychology, clinical research education

Elisabeth Van Bockstaele, PhD

Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer; Senior Vice Provost of Graduate Studies, Office of Graduate Studies; Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies; Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Role of monoaminergic systems in stress-related illness and substance abuse disorders

Rachel Van Duyne, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Molecular virology of HIV-1, host-virus interactions, epigenetics of latency, drugs of abuse, pathogenesis, transmission, antiretrovirals

Benjamin Weiss, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology

Michael White, PhD

Professor
Department: Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interests: Ligand-gated ion channels; structure-function relationships; molecular modeling; ligand-receptor interactions