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

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

- Radbod Darabi
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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
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs
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, 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
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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

- Meiricris Tomaz Da Silva
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Research Scientist
Target & Muscle regeneration and mass regulation in disease, cachexia, denervation, and aging

- Wei Wang
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Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Molecular pharmacology

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

- Mingfu Wu
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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

- Bin Guo
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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

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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

- Airong Li
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Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of cancer therapeutics, bioanalysis

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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

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

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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

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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

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Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Tissue Specific Drug Discovery

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

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Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Developing innovative teaching methodology for better integrating basic and clinical sciences
Joint Faculty
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Joint, Biology and Biochemistry)
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Professor of Medicinal Chemistry (Joint, Chemistry)
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Joint, Biology and Biochemistry)
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Professor of Pharmacology
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Professor of Pharmaceutics/Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research
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Professor of Pharmacology/Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research