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Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

Pharmacology

  • Our Department
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    • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences Research
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    • Pharmacology Education
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Nutritional Sciences Graduate Faculty

Terry A. Lennie, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN

  • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Nursing Instruction
  • Associate Dean for PhD Studies

Xiang-An Li, PhD

  • Physiology
  • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

Positions Held:
  • Professor
  • Regular Faculty

Analia Loria, PhD

  • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
  • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor
  • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences

Hong S. Lu, MD, PhD

  • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Physiology
  • Saha Aortic Center

Positions Held:
  • Associate Professor

James C. Matthews, PhD


    Positions Held:
    • Animal and Food Sciences

    Ann Morris, PhD


      Positions Held:
      • Associate Professor and Associate Chair

      Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD

      • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

      Positions Held:
      • Professor of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
      • Associate Director for Translational Research in Diabetes, Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center
      • Fellow of The Obesity Society

      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

      Julie Pendergast, PhD

      • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center

      Rina Plattner, PhD

      • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

      Positions Held:
      • Professor
      • Graduate Faculty in Nutritional Sciences
      • Graduate Faculty in Toxicology

      Sara B. Police, PhD

      • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

      Positions Held:
      • Associate Professor
      • Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
      • Director of Nutritional Sciences Education

      Nada Porter, PhD

      • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

      Positions Held:
      • Associate Professor
      • MD/PhD Program Mentor
      • Chair of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

      Cetewayo S. Rashid, PhD

      • Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

      Positions Held:
      • Assistant Professor, Regular Title

      Hiroshi Saito, PhD

      • Surgery
      • Physiology

      Positions Held:
      • Professor

      Brett Spear, PhD

      • Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

      Positions Held:
      • Professor

      Marlene E Starr, PhD

      • Surgery

      Positions Held:
      • Associate Professor

      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)

      Surendranath Suman, PhD


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

        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

        Lisa Tannock, MD

        • Internal Medicine
        • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
        • Saha Aortic Center

        Positions Held:
        • Professor
        • Associate Provost for Faculty Advancement

        Ryan Temel, PhD

        • Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
        • Physiology

        Positions Held:
        • Associate Professor
        • Cardiovascular Research Center
        • Department of Physiology

        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

        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

          Salvatore Turco, PhD


            Positions Held:
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