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PPS Faculty Directory

Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences (PPS)


Gregory Cuny
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
Krishna Boini

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


Richard Bond
Richard Bond

Professor of Pharmacology
Discovering or identifying better drugs for asthma


Richard Bond
Radbod Darabi

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


Jason Eriksen
Jason Eriksen

Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders


Tahir Hussain
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


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Ashok Kumar

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
Xiang Li

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


Aditi Marwaha
Aditi Marwaha

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


Bradley McConnell
Bradley McConnell

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


Lianjie Miao
Lianjie Miao

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


Anirban Roy
Anirban Roy

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


Samina Salim
Samina Salim

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


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Ravi Singh

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


MariVi Tejada-Simon
MariVi Tejada-Simon

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


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Wei Wang

Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Molecular pharmacology


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Mingfu Wu

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


Ruiwen Zhang
Ruiwen Zhang

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


Yang Zhang
Yang Zhang

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

Pharmaceutics


Diana S-L Chow
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


Romi Ghose
Romi Ghose

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Hepatic drug metabolism and transport, Cytochrome P450 enzymes, drug-induced liver injury


Bin Guo
Bin Guo

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


Jiukuan Hao
Jiukuan Hao

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


Ming Hu
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


Xinli Liu
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
Rashim Singh

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


Rongjin Sun
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
Joydip Das

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


Romi Ghose
Ke-He Ruan

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacology and Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Pharmacoinformatics (CETP)
Bioengineering active protein complexes: EnzymeLink, VaccineLink, ReceptorLink & InsulinLink


Alexander Statsyuk
Alexander Statsyuk

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Tissue Specific Drug Discovery


Gomika Udugamasooriya
Gomika Udugamasooriya

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


Louis Williams
Louis Williams

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


Joint Faculty


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Tasneem Bawa-Khalfe

Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Joint, Biology and Biochemistry)


Scott Gilbertson
Scott Gilbertson

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry (Joint, Chemistry)


Yu Liu
Yu Liu

Associate Professor of Pharmacology (Joint, Biology and Biochemistry)


Chandra Mohan
Chandra Mohan

Professor of Pharmacology


Vincent Tam
Vincent Tam

Professor of Pharmaceutics/Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research


Scott Gilbertson
Meghna Trivedi

Professor of Pharmacology/Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research