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Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Pharmacology

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Nutritional Sciences Graduate Faculty

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Kevin J. Pearson, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Assistant Dean for Research Engagement, Office of Research, College of Medicine
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
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Julie Pendergast, PhD

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
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Rina Plattner, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
  • Graduate Faculty in Toxicology
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Sara B. Police, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Director of Nutritional Sciences Education
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Nada Porter, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
  • MD/PhD Program Mentor
  • Chair of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
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Cetewayo S. Rashid, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Assistant Professor, Regular Title
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Hiroshi Saito, PhD

Surgery
Physiology

Positions Held:
  • Professor
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Brett Spear, PhD

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

Positions Held:
  • Professor
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Marlene E Starr, PhD

Surgery

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
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Patrick Sullivan, PhD

Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center
Neuroscience

Positions Held:
  • Professor of Neuroscience
  • Regular Faculty
  • Endowed Chair The Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC)
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Surendranath Suman, PhD


Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Animal and Food Sciences
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Animal Science
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Hollie Swanson, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
Office of Biomedical Education

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Director, Summer Undergraduate Research in Environmental Health Sciences (SURES)
  • DGS of Integrated Biomedical Sciences
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Ryan Temel, PhD

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Physiology

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
  • Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Department of Physiology
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Olivier Thibault, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

Positions Held:
  • Professor of Neuroscience
  • Co-Director Sanders-Brown Intravital Imaging Facility
  • Graduate Faculty of Nutritional Sciences
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D. Travis Thomas, PhD, RDN, CSSD, LD, FAND


Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor of Clinical and Sports Nutrition
  • Health Sciences - Department of Athletic Training and Clinical Nutrition
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Salvatore Turco, PhD


Positions Held:
  • Professor
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Shuxia Wang, MD, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
  • Cardiovascular Research Center
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Nancy R. Webb, PhD

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Positions Held:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
  • Cardiovascular Research Center
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Youling Xiong, PhD


Positions Held:
  • Animal and Food Sciences
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