Kanneboyina Nagaraju
Founding Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Immunology
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Autoimmune diseases
- Drug development
Gloria Meredith
Founding Dean
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Neurosciences
- Mechanisms underlying Parkinson
- Mechanisms of drug addiction
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
Aaron Beedle
Associate Professor, 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
Tracy Brooks
Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Menner Family Endowed Faculty Fellow
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Oncology
- Anti-cancer therapeutics
- Drug target development
Anthony Di Pasqua
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Nanomaterials
- Chemo- and radio-therapeutics
- Platinum-based anticancer therapeutics
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
Timothy A Hillis
Research Laboratory Associate
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Laboratory management
- Rodent colony management
- Neurodegeneration
- Neurobiology of reward
- Neuroplasticity and neurotrophins
- Disorders of memory
- Muscular dystrophy
- Skeletal muscle
- Mouse genetic models
- Disease pathogenesis and therapeutics
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
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
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests
- Medicinal chemistry
- Targeted drug delivery
- Antibody-drug conjugates
- Auto-immune disease / inflammation
Marissa Barbieri
Clinical Coordinator, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Gieselle Staub
Administrative Coordinator, Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Courtesy Faculty
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
Research Interests
- Stem cells and tissue engineering
- Proteomics and Bioinformatics
- Signaling transduction and signaling pathways
- Biomolecular engineering
