USA Department of Pharmacology Faculty

Academic Faculty


Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D

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.

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 Borchert, Ph.D.

Professor

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

Regulation of gene expression by small RNAs

 


Raymond J. Langley, Ph.D.

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.

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.

Viktor Pastukh, Ph.D.

Instructor

Phone: (251) 460-6793
Email: vpastukh@southalabama.edu

Transcriptional control in lung cells

 


Lyudmila Rachek, Ph.D.

Lyudmila 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 V. Ruchko, Ph.D.

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.

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.

June Ayling, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

Email: jayling@southalabama.edu

Role of tetrahydrobiopterin and folates in disease prevention

 


Eugene A. Cioffi, Ph.D.

Eugene A. Cioffi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Emeritus

Email: eacioffi@southalabama.edu

Glycochemistry and pulmonary glycocalyx

 


Ivan F. McMurtry, Ph.D.

Ivan F. McMurtry, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Email: ifmcmurtry@southalabama.edu

Pharmacologic targets and pathobiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension

 


Jack W. Olson, Ph.D.

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.

Stephen W. Schaffer, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Email: schaffe@southalabama.edu

Pharmacologic targets in myocardial ischemia

 


Wiltz W. Wagner, Jr., Ph.D.

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.

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.

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

Julia Kar, Ph.D

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

 


Silas J. Leavesley, Ph.D.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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