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Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science, and Toxicology Faculty

Primary Faculty

Alex M. Dopico

Van Vleet Chair of Excellence and Professor

Brain and cerebrovascular ion channels, lipids and neurotoxicants, including alcohol

901.448.3822

Anna Bukiya, PhD

Professor

Pregnancy and alcohol, cannabis, fish oil, cholesterol, ion channels and brain blood supply

901.448.2128

 
Hao Chen, PhD

Associate Professor

Genetics and genomics on nicotine and opioid abuse using rat models

901.448.3720

Marshall Elam, III, PhD

Professor

Clinician Educator/Myalgia induced by agents that combat hypercholesterolemia

901.448.6011

Seetharaman Jayaraman, PhD

Associate Professor (Research track)

Protein-protein/nucleotide/small molecules complex studies, cancer drug targets and computational biology

901.448.6000

Changhoon Jee, PhD

Assistant Professor

Genetic and signaling bases of compulsive alcohol/drug-seeking behaviors in C. elegans

901.448.6050

Dean Kirson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Sex-specific neurobiological mechanisms that underlie substance use and stress disorders

901.448.1398

 
Francesca-Fang Liao, PhD

Vice Chair and Distinguished Professor

Neuronal, cerebrovascular and inflammatory signaling in AD and other dementias

901.448.2752

Kafait U. Malik, DSc, PhD

Professor

Neurohormonal mechanisms of gender differences in hypertension, inflammation and associated pathogenesis

901.448.6075

Kazuko Sakata, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Clinician Educator/Rodent models to study brain-derived neurotrophic factor in psychiatric conditions

901.448.2662

 
Purnima Singh, PhD

Assistant Professor (Research Track)

901.448.5049

Chi Young Song, PhD

Instructor

901.448.6010

 
Jeffery D. Steketee, PhD

Professor

Neurochemistry of substance abuse, with a focus on cocaine, using rodent models

Wenlin Sun, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

In vivo electrophysiological and behavioral studies of cocaine and alcohol use disorders

901.448.1354

Trevor W. Sweatman, PhD

Professor

Pharmacology Education

901.448.4591

 

Steven J. Tavalin, PhD

Associate Professor

Regulation of glutamatergic receptors and neuronal excitability by localized signaling complexes

901.448.3007

 
Brendan Tunstall, PhD

Assistant Professor

Neurobiology of alcohol and opioid dependence

901.448.3519

 

Thirumalini Vaithianathan, PhD

Assistant Professor

Synaptic vesicle dynamics and local calcium signaling in retinal ribbon synapses during development, normal adulthood, and disease

901.448.2786

 

Fu-Ming Zhou, PhD

Professor

Electrophysiological, anatomical and behavioral studies of basal ganglia-cortical circuits in Parkinson's disease

901.448.1779

 

 

Joint Faculty

 

Karen J. Derefinko, PhD

Assistant Professor

College of Medicine

Department of Preventive Medicine

Byron Jones

Professor

College of Medicine

Department of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics

 

Santosh Kumar, PhD

Professor

College of Pharmacy

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Burt Sharp

Distinguished Professor

College of Medicine

Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics

 

 

Emeritus Faculty

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Murray Heimberg, MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Emeritus

 

Nov 1, 2024