USA Department of Pharmacology Faculty
Academic Faculty
Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D
SAMSF-Locke Endowed Professor and Chair
Phone: (251) 460-6497
Email: mgillesp@southalabama.edu
Hypoxia and lung cell signaling
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.
Associate Professor
Phone: (251) 461-1567
Email: nbauer@southalabama.edu
Microparticle-mediated intercellular communication
Glen Borchert, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: (251) 461-1367
Email: borchert@southalabama.edu
Regulation of gene expression by small RNAs
Raymond J. Langley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (251) 460-6814
Email: rlangley@southalabama.edu
Sepsis and biostatistical analysis for outcome prediction
Marie Migaud, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: (251) 410-4938
Email: mmigaud@health.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.
Instructor
Phone: (251) 460-6793
Email: vpastukh@southalabama.edu
Transcriptional control in lung cells
Lyudmila Rachek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (251) 460-6960
Email: lrachek@southalabama.edu
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Diabetes
Thomas C. Rich, Ph.D.
Professor
Phone: (251) 460-6039
Email: trich@southalabama.edu
Compartmentalized, cyclic nucleotide-mediated signaling
Mykhaylo V. Ruchko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (251) 461-1709
Email: mruchko@southalabama.edu
Role of mitochondrial DNA integrity in lung cell survival
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
Emeritus Faculty
June Ayling, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
Email: jayling@southalabama.edu
Role of tetrahydrobiopterin and folates in disease prevention
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
Phone: (251) 460-6198
Email: wwwagner@southalabama.edu
Pulmonary microcirculation/fractal modeling
Joint Faculty
Karen Fagan, M.D.
Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology
Basic mechanisms and clinical pharmacology of pulmonary arterial hypertension
Brian William Fouty, M.D.
Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology
Lung injury and repair
Julia Kar, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Silas J. Leavesley, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
College of Engineering
Optical imaging and illumination technologies to provide novel biomedical and clinical imaging and detection methods, specifically hyperspectral imaging and analysis methods to microscopy, endoscopy, and small-animal fluorescence imaging
Dean K. Naritoku, M.D.
Chair, Neurology
Director, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy Fellowship
Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology
Developing new therapies for epilepsy, studying brain mechanisms of seizures and dysautonomia
Aishwarya Prakash, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
Mitchell Cancer Institute and USA College of Medicine
Mitochondrial disease and cancer; oxidative DNA damage and repair; enzyme binding and kinetics; macromolecular X-ray crystallography and small angle X-ray scattering
Jon D. Simmons, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Professor of Surgery
Trauma Medical Director; Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Dhananjay Tambe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine
Mechanical behavior of endothelial cells and their microenvironment in pulmonary venous hypertension