People in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Eric Hoffman

Associate Dean for Research and Research Development and Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 203B

Research Interests

  • Molecular genetics
  • Neuromuscular disease
  • Drug development
  • Regulatory affairs
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Tony Davis

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 322

Research Interests

  • Natural products biosynthesis
  • Infectious diseases
  • Targeted protein degradation
  • Drug discovery and development
  • Chemical biology
  • Synthetic and medicinal chemistry
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Katie Edwards

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 418

Research Interests

  • Bioanalytical assay development (enzyme-focused)
  • Thiamine metabolism and functional biomarkers
  • Transketolase and related metabolic pathways
  • Oxidative stress and redox systems
  • Bioactivity of natural products
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John Fetse

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 330

Research Interests

  • Peptide drug development
  • Lipid nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery
  • Smart biomaterials for minimally invasive therapeutics
  • Cancer immunotherapy
  • Protein-protein interaction modulation
  • Ligands for targeted drug delivery and diagnostic imaging
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Yanyan Li

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 426

Research Interests

  • Inflammatory diseases
  • Inflammation-associated cancer
  • Aging-associated disorders
  • Microbiota and natural products for drug discovery and development
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Melissa Morales

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 430

Research Interests

  • • Neuromuscular diseases
    • Inflammatory and autoimmune diseases
    • Preclinical drug testing
    • Non-immune contributors to disease

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Azadeh Nasuhidehnavi

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 420

Research Interests

  • Immunometabolic regulations
  • Host-parasite interactions
  • Infectious diseases
  • Cardiometabolic diseases
  • Neuroimmunology
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Gail Rattinger

Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 331

Research Interests

  • Health policy, quality, and outcomes
  • Geriatric neurodegenerative and chronic disease management
  • Health equity and costs of care
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Large-scale database analyses
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Lynda Ruffini

Senior Research Support Specialist

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 328

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
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Yuanjun "Steven" Shen

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 421

Research Interests

  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Vascular biology
  • Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • Cell signaling
  • Mouse genetic models
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L. Nathan Tumey

Assistant Graduate Director; Vice Chair and Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 303A

Research Interests

  • Medicinal chemistry
  • Targeted drug delivery
  • Antibody-drug conjugates
  • Autoimmune disease / inflammation / oncology
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Tao Zhang

Associate Professor and Director of Pharmacokinetics and Bioanalysis Facility, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PB 422

Research Interests

  • Preclinical ADME and translational pharmacokinetics
  • Physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling
  • Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling
  • In vitro–in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE) and model-informed drug development
  • Drug transfer into milk and drug safety during breastfeeding
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Postdoctoral Associates

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Thilina Kasthuriarachchi

Postdoctoral Research Associate

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research/Lab Technicians

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