91¶ÌÊÓƵ Department of Pharmacology Faculty

Academic Faculty

Christopher Davies, Ph.D.

Christopher Davies, Ph.D.
Professor and Interim Chair
Associate Dean for Research

Phone: (251) 341-3826
Email: cdavies@southalabama.edu

The structural basis for antimicrobial resistance

 

Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi, M.D., Ph.D.

Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: (251) 460-6704
Email: mehdi@southalabama.edu

Lung tumor angiogenesis/metastasis, mitochondria

 

Natalie R. Bauer, Ph.D.

Natalie R. Bauer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Phone: (251) 461-1567
Email: nbauer@southalabama.edu

Microparticle-mediated intercellular communication

 

Glen Borchert, Ph.D.

Glen M. Borchert, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: (251) 461-1367
Email: borchert@southalabama.edu

Regulation of gene expression by small RNAs

 

Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D

Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D
Professor

Phone: (251) 460-6497
Email: mgillesp@southalabama.edu

Hypoxia and lung cell signaling

 

Raymond J. Langley, Ph.D.

Raymond J. Langley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Phone: (251) 460-6814
Email: rlangley@southalabama.edu

Sepsis and biostatistical analysis for outcome prediction

 

Marie Migaud, Ph.D.

Marie E. Migaud, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: (251) 410-4938
Email: mmigaud@southalabama.edu

Developing modular multidisciplinary strategies that seek to modulate the bioavailability of B-vitamin derived redox cofactors to interrogate biological systems while allowing the traceability of changes

 

Viktor Pastukh, Ph.D.

Viktor M. Pastukh, Ph.D.
Instructor

Phone: (251) 460-6782
Email: vpastukh@southalabama.edu

Transcriptional control in lung cells

 

Lyudmila Rachek, Ph.D.

Lyudmila I. Rachek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Phone: (251) 460-6960
Email: lrachek@southalabama.edu

Mitochondrial dysfunction and diabetes

 

Thomas C. Rich, Ph.D.

Thomas C. Rich, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: (251) 460-6039
Email: trich@southalabama.edu

Compartmentalized, cyclic nucleotide-mediated signaling

 

Mykhaylo Ruchko, Ph.D.

Mykhaylo Ruchko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Phone: (251) 461-1709
Email: mruchko@southalabama.edu

Damage and signaling of free radicals action in cells

 

Victor Solodushko, Ph.D.

Victor Solodushko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Phone: (251) 460-7489
Email: vsolodushko@southalabama.edu

Removable transposon-viral hybrid vectors to generate endothelial progenitor cells from somatic cells; testing their therapeutic potential in animals and humans

 

Faculty with Secondary Appointments in Pharmacology

Casey Daniel, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Pharmacology

Brian William Fouty, M.D.
Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology

Jingshan Huang, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science and Pharmacology
School of Computing and College of Medicine

Julia Kar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine

Silas J. Leavesley, Ph.D.
Interim Chair, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine

Dean K. Naritoku, M.D.
Chair, Neurology
Director, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy Fellowship
Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology

Aishwarya Prakash, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Pharmacology

Jon D. Simmons, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Trauma Medical Director; Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology

Robert W. Sobol, Ph.D.
Dean's Professor of Cancer Research
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University
Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology

Dhananjay Tambe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine

 

Emeritus Faculty

Eugene A. Cioffi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Email: eacioffi@southalabama.edu
Glycochemistry and pulmonary glycocalyx

Ivan F. McMurtry, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: ifmcmurtry@southalabama.edu
Pharmacologic targets and pathobiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension

Jack W. Olson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: jwolson@southalabama.edu
Pharmacologic targets and pathobiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension/ microRNAs/induced pluripotent stem cells

Stephen W. Schaffer, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: schaffe@southalabama.edu
Pharmacologic targets in myocardial ischemia

Wiltz W. Wagner, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Email: wwwagner@southalabama.edu
Full CV [PDF]
Pulmonary microcirculation/fractal modeling

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