The research interests of our faculty vary widely from the effects of drugs and chemicals on macromolecules to their actions in humans. Researchers use laboratory animals, human and animal cells in culture, and other test systems to examine the cellular, biochemical and molecular processes underlying pharmacologic and toxic responses.
Among the subdisciplines are such diverse fields as:
-- behavioral and neuropharmacology
-- cardiovascular pharmacology
-- chemical carcinogenesis
-- drug biotransformation
-- drug receptor pharmacology
-- endocrine pharmacology
-- environmental toxicology
-- gastrointestinal pharmacology & toxicology
-- immunopharmacology & toxicology
-- neurotoxicology
-- pulmonary hepatic pharmacology & toxicology
Our researchers published more than sixty (60) separate articles, book chapters, and abstracts in the year 2006 and more than forty (40) in 2005.
Our Service
Departmental faculty give to the research community through service at the local, regional and national levels, largely on a volunteer basis. There is a strong tradition in the department for faculty to:
On occasion, faculty also provide consultation services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.-- hold national offices in organizations such as the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the Society for Toxicology, the American Physiological Society, and the Society for Neuroscience
-- review grant applications for funding agencies, and
-- serve as editors and reviewers for scientific journals.