Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Karen Briski
Karen P. Briski, Department Head and Professor of Pharmacology

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1981
Postdoctoral, Michigan State University

Research:  Neuroanatomical and neurochemical substrates for central glucoprivic regulation of reproductive neuroendocrine function and food intake, with emphasis on caudal brain stem catecholaminergic, glutaminergic, and nitregic signaling.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/Briski
Michael D. DeGennaro, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics

Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1973

Research:  Development and evaluation of pharmaceutical dosage forms which utilize the microencapsulation procedures of interfacial polymerization and/or multiple emulsion formation.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/Degennaro
Khalid A. El Sayed, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Ph. D., Mansoura University (Egypt)
Postdoctoral, University of Mississippi

Research:  Isolation and characterization of bioactive plant and marine-derived natural products.  Use of microbial and chemical transformations as tools to broaden the bioactivity and chemistry scopes of these natural products.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/ElSayed
Ronald A. Hill, Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Ph. D., Ohio State University, 1991

Research:  Chiral amino acid synthesis and analysis, heterocyclic chemistry, synthesis of excitatory amino acid antagonists, CNS riboflavin metabolism, CNS potassium channel modulators.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/Hill
Shaochung Victor Hsia, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1999
Postdoctoral NICHD, National Institutes of Health

Research:  Gene regulation and development.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/Hsia
Alamdar Hussain, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics

Ph.D., Texas Tech University Health Science Center,  2005

Research: Protein and macromolecular drug delivery via the pulmonary and nasal routes, pre-clinical pharmacokinetics, pulmonary toxicity studies, respiratory mucociliary clearance studies, in vitro drug permeability studies, colonic drug delivery, and microencapsulation.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/hussain

Keith Jackson, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Ph.D., University of North Texas HSC at Fort Worth, 2001
Postdoctoral, University of North Texas, Tulane University HSC

Research: Cardiovascular function, renal hemodynamics and clearance, mechanisms of hypertension, and biological roles for porphyrin and gaseous messengers.

Website: rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/jackson

Seetharam Jois, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1994

Research:  Design and structural studies of peptides for cell-adhesion inhibition.  Design of small molecular inhibitors targeted towards HER-2 as therapeutic agents for breast cancer.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/jois
Amal Khalil Kaddoumi, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics

Ph.D., Nagaski University, Nagaski, Japan, 2004

Postdoctoral, University of Michigan, 2004-2005, University of Washington, 2005-2006

Research: Membrane drug tranporters and their modulatory effects on drug therapy in the field of neurological diseases.

Website: rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/kaddoumi

Yong-Yu Liu, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

M.D., Soochow University School of Medicine, 1984
Ph.D., Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1989
Postdoctoral, University of Rome-Tor Vergata, University of Manitoba, John Wayne Cancer Institute

Research:  Tumor cell response to chemotherapy, sphingolipid glycosylation and gene regulation.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/liu
Sami M. Nazzal, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics

Ph.D., Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center 2002

Research:  Modified and controlled drug release.  Coating and manufacturing process development.  Lipid based drug delivery and lipolysis modeling.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/Nazzal
Girish Shah, Mary E. and Darrell L. Calhoun Endowed Chair and Professor of Pharmacology

Ph.D., University of Bombay, 1979
Postdoctoral Karolinska Institute, Max Planck Clinical Research Unit for Reproductive Medicine, and Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University

Research:  The role of calcitonin in the progression of prostate carcinoma with the aim of development of new therapeutic approaches.  Studies directed toward understanding the role of pituitary calcitonin in the development of the pituitary gland as well as in the process of overall growth and development.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/Shah
Paul W. Sylvester, B. J. Robison/Pfizer Endowed Professor of Pharmacology

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1982
Postdoctoral, Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Research:  Neuroendocrinology and endocrine-dependent cancers, particularly breast cancer prevention and etiology.  Intracellular signaling mechanisms mediating normal and neoplastic mammary epithelial cell proliferation and apoptosis.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/Sylvester
Toxicology
Kevin N. Baer, Department Head of Toxicology

Ph.D., Northeast Louisiana University, 1988
Postdoctoral, University of Texas Marine Science Institute

Research:  The evaluation of biochemical and physiological indicators of environmental stress in aquatic organisms, including low molecular weight metal binding proteins (metallothionein) end c-P450 enzyme systems.  Endocrine modulation following exposure to toxicants and subsequent alterations of reproduction and embryo development in fish.

Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/baer
Benny L. Blaylock, Associate Dean of Internal Operations and Technology
Waste Management Endowed Professor of Toxicology

Ph.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 1989
Postdoctoral NIEHS (Research Triangle Park)

Research:  Description of immune modulation induced by xenobiotics and the mechanism(s) responsible for the modulatory effects.
Harihara M. Mehendale, Professor of Toxicology
Kitty Degree Endowed Chair in Toxicology

Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1969
Postdoctoral, University of Kentucky and NIEHS (Research Triangle Park)

Research:  Hepatotoxicology, Pulmonary Toxicology, Renal Toxicology and Mechanisms of Toxicity.


Website:  rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/mehendale
Sharon A. Meyer, Associate Professor of Toxicology

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984
Postdoctoral, Harvard Medical School and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Research:  Hepatotoxicity, neurotoxicity, hematotoxicity and disturbances in thyroid hormone homeostasis of herbicides and other nitrogenous compounds.

Website: rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/meyer


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