USA Department of Pharmacology Faculty
Academic Faculty
Christopher Davies, Ph.D.
Professor and Interim Chair
Associate Dean for Research
Phone: (251) 341-3826
Email: cdavies@southalabama.edu
The structural basis for antimicrobial resistance
Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: (251) 460-6704
Email: mehdi@southalabama.edu
Lung tumor angiogenesis/metastasis, mitochondria
Natalie R. Bauer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: (251) 461-1567
Email: nbauer@southalabama.edu
Microparticle-mediated intercellular communication
Glen M. Borchert, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: (251) 461-1367
Email: borchert@southalabama.edu
Regulation of gene expression by small RNAs
Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D
Professor
Phone: (251) 460-6497
Email: mgillesp@southalabama.edu
Hypoxia and lung cell signaling
Raymond J. Langley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: (251) 460-6814
Email: rlangley@southalabama.edu
Sepsis and biostatistical analysis for outcome prediction
Marie E. Migaud, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: (251) 410-4938
Email: mmigaud@southalabama.edu
Developing modular multidisciplinary strategies that seek to modulate the bioavailability of B-vitamin derived redox cofactors to interrogate biological systems while allowing the traceability of changes
Viktor M. Pastukh, Ph.D.
Instructor
Phone: (251) 460-6782
Email: vpastukh@southalabama.edu
Transcriptional control in lung cells
Lyudmila I. Rachek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (251) 460-6960
Email: lrachek@southalabama.edu
Mitochondrial dysfunction and diabetes
Thomas C. Rich, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: (251) 460-6039
Email: trich@southalabama.edu
Compartmentalized, cyclic nucleotide-mediated signaling
Mykhaylo Ruchko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (251) 461-1709
Email: mruchko@southalabama.edu
Damage and signaling of free radicals action in cells
Victor Solodushko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: (251) 460-7489
Email: vsolodushko@southalabama.edu
Removable transposon-viral hybrid vectors to generate endothelial progenitor cells from somatic cells; testing their therapeutic potential in animals and humans
Faculty with Secondary Appointments in Pharmacology
Casey Daniel, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Pharmacology
Brian William Fouty, M.D.
Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology
Jingshan Huang, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science and Pharmacology
School of Computing and College of Medicine
Julia Kar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine
Silas J. Leavesley, Ph.D.
Interim Chair, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine
Dean K. Naritoku, M.D.
Chair, Neurology
Director, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy Fellowship
Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology
Aishwarya Prakash, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
Jon D. Simmons, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Trauma Medical Director; Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology
Robert W. Sobol, Ph.D.
Dean's Professor of Cancer Research
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University
Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology
Dhananjay Tambe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine
Emeritus Faculty
Eugene A. Cioffi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Email: eacioffi@southalabama.edu
Glycochemistry and pulmonary glycocalyx
Ivan F. McMurtry, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: ifmcmurtry@southalabama.edu
Pharmacologic targets and pathobiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension
Jack W. Olson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: jwolson@southalabama.edu
Pharmacologic targets and pathobiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension/ microRNAs/induced
pluripotent stem cells
Stephen W. Schaffer, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: schaffe@southalabama.edu
Pharmacologic targets in myocardial ischemia
Wiltz W. Wagner, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: wwwagner@southalabama.edu
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Pulmonary microcirculation/fractal modeling