
Aaron Beedle
Associate Professor, and Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Muscular dystrophy
- disease pathogenesis and therapeutics
- Dystroglycan
- glycosylation
- the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex
- Skeletal muscle
- heart
- and brain function
- Mouse genetic models

Kanneboyina Nagaraju
Dean and Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Immunology
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Autoimmune diseases
- Drug development

Eric Hoffman
Associate Dean, Research and Research Development
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Molecular genetics
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Drug development

Mohammad Ali
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Cancer cell biology
- Epigenetics
- Cardiovascular

Tracy Brooks
Associate Professor, and Vice-Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Menner Family Endowed Faculty Fellow
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Oncology
- Anti-cancer therapeutics
- Drug target development

Tony Davis
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Natural products biosynthesis
- Infectious diseases
- Neurological disorders
- Drug discovery and development
- Chemical biology
- Synthetic and medicinal chemistry

Katie Edwards
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Liposomal combination drug formulations
- Thiamine deficiency and supplementation
- Bioanalytical assay development

Yetrib Hathout
Professor; Graduate Director, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Bio-analytical mass spectrometry
- Proteomic studies of human diseases

Bruce Maine
Administrative Coordinator, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Gloria Meredith
Distinguished Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Neurosciences
- Mechanisms underlying Parkinson
- Mechanisms of drug addiction

Melissa Morales
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Myositis
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Mechanisms underlying neuromuscular diseases
- Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience

Danielle Painter
Instructional Support Assistant
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Lynda Ruffini
Senior Research Support Specialist
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Veterinary medicine and surgery
- Rodent colony management
- Laboratory management
- Alcohol in adolescents
- Hepatitis C virus
- Alzheimer’s disease and Amyloidosis Dutch-type
- Pediatric cardiopulmonary disease
- Phospholipids

Nathan Tumey
Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Medicinal chemistry
- Targeted drug delivery
- Antibody-drug conjugates
- Auto-immune disease / inflammation

Tao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling
- In vitro and in vivo correlation
- Drug transfer into milk, drug safety during breastfeeding
- Gut microbiome, inflammation and colorectal cancer
Courtesy Faculty

Kaiming Ye
SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair
Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
- Advanced biomanufacturing
- 3D bioprinting
- stem cell and regenerative medicine
- nanomedicine
- cell engineering
- vaccine development
- single molecular imaging
- biosensors

Guy K. German
Associate Professor/Graduate Program Director
Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
- Complex fluids
- Soft matter
- Cellular and Tissue mechanics
- Traction force Microscopy
- Cosmetic Physics

Sha Jin
Professor/Undergraduate Director
Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
- Stem cells and tissue engineering
- Proteomics and Bioinformatics
- Signaling transduction and signaling pathways
- Biomolecular engineering