Research

Faculty of the Department of Pharmacology participate in several interdisciplinary graduate programs, including the Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Program (CMPP), the Cell and Molecular Biology Program (CMB) and the Biomedical Engineering Program (BME).

Major Topics of Research

Myometrial Function Research Group

  • Biophysics and Molecular Biology of Ion Channels
    • Leblanc
  • Cell Physiology and Molecular Biology of Smooth Muscle Contraction and Motility
    • Ulrich
    • Barnett
    • H. Burkin
    • Buxton
  • Cellular/Genetic Pharmacology
    • H. Burkin

Electrophysiology

  • Electrophysiology
    • Leblanc
  • Cardiac
    • Buxton
    • Harvey
  • Smooth Muscle
    • Buxton
  • Myometrial
    • Buxton
    • Ulrich

Ion Channels

  • Leblanc
  • Harvey
  • Agarwal
  • Barnett
  • Earley

Biochemistry and Biophysics of Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Cells

  • Harvey
  • Barnett

Cellular and Molecular

  • Craviso

Epigenetics

  • P. Jones

Muscular Dystrophies

  • D. Burkin

  • P. Jones

Neuropharmacology

  • Craviso

Neuroscience/Neuropharmacology

  • Dagda

Neurophysiology

  • Feng

Vascular Wall Cell Biology

  • Buxton

Insulin transduction and defects in diabetes

Regulation of smooth muscle contractions

  • Cremo
  • Facemyr

Integrins and natriuretic peptides in cardiac myocytes

Molecular Biophysics of motor proteins

  • Facemyer
  • Cremo

Epigenetic mechanisms of cardiac muscle hypertrophy

Misfolding proteins associated with non-infectious neurodegenerative diseases

  • Liebman