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Pharmacology

Faculty List and Research Interests


Primary Faculty	Name	Position	Research
	Timothy Palzkill, Ph.D. View Bio	Chair and Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Professor Virology & Microbiology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.	Role of beta-lactamase mutations in antibiotic resistance Functional genomics of Treponema pallidum
	Patrick Barth, Ph.D. View Bio	Assistant Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Exploring signaling mechanisms across biological membranes using integrative computational/experimental approaches
	Pui-Kwong Chan, Ph.D. View Bio	Professor, Department of Pharmacology	Anti-tumor agents and mechanisms
	William Edwin Fann, M.D. View Bio	Professor, Department of Pharmacology	Side effects and interactions of psychotropic compounds
	Choel Kim, Ph.D. View Bio	Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology	Protein-Protein Recognition and Assembly of Higher Order Signal Transduction Complexes
	Ramachandra R. Reddy, Ph.D. View Bio	Professor, Department of Pharmacology	Synthesis of small nuclear RNAs: Function of post-transcriptional modifications
	Yongcheng Song, Ph.D. View Bio	Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology	Rational design and development of small molecule inhibitors for drug discovery/chemical biology
	Lynn Yeoman, Ph.D. View Bio	Professor, Department of Pharmacology	Director, Medical Pharmacology Course


Secondary Faculty	Name	Position and Primary Department	Research
	Farhad R. Danesh, M.D. View Bio	Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology	Role of Rho family of small GTPases in mediating microvascular complications of diabetes Potential beneficial effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors also known as statins, in diabetes and its micro/macrovascular complications
	Richard De La Garza, Ph.D. View Bio	Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences	Safety and efficacy of novel medications for methamphetamine and cocaine addiction Role of stress system activation in stimulant abuse and addiction
	Thomas Kosten, M.D. View Bio	Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Research Director of the VA National Substance Use Disorders Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) & Jay H. Waggoner Chair	Substance Dependence Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Neuroimaging
	Adam Kuspa, Ph.D. View Bio	Chair and Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Molecular & Human Genetics	Molecular genetics of development in Dictyostelium
	Olivier Lichtarge, M.D., Ph.D View Bio	Professor, Departments of Molecular & Human Genetics and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Programs in Developmental Biology, Cell & Molecular Biology, Structural & Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics.	Engineering proteins or peptides to rationally disrupt protein pathways.
	Jianpeng Ma, Ph.D. View Bio	Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Bioengineering at Rice University	Multi-resolution and Multi-length Scale Simulation of Supermolecular Complexes Structural Refinement for X-ray, cryo-EM and Fiber Diffraction Structure Modeling and Prediction
	Thomas Newton, M.D. View Bio	Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences	Psychiatry Addiction Research
	James L. Pool, M.D. View Bio	Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology	Clinical trials and translational research in clinical pharmacology of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in cardiovascular diseases
	Zhou Songyang, Ph.D. View Bio	Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Molecular mechanisms of signal transduction Genetic Screens, Proteomic and Functional Genomics
	Addison A. Taylor, M.D., Ph.D. View Bio	Associate Dean for Clinical Research, Baylor College of Medicine Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Chief of Section of Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine
	Theodore G. Wensel, Ph.D. View Bio	Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Neuroscience and Ophthalmology	G-Protein-Coupled Receptors, and molecular mechanisms of signal transduction in healthy and degenerating neurons
	Lynn Zechiedrich, Ph.D. View Bio	Associate Professor, Molecular Virology & Microbiology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	DNA stucture, function, and use for gene therapy; DNA topoisomerases and the drugs that block them


Adjunct Faculty	Name	Position and Primary Department	Research
	Janet Stringer, M.D., Ph.D.	Adjunct Associate Professor
	Benigno Valdez, Ph.D.	Adjunct Assistant Professor
	Gerald I. Busch, M.D.	Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor


Research Faculty	Name	Position and Primary Department	Research
	Wanzhi Huang, Ph.D.	Research Assistant Professor

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