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  • 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

  • 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

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