Fast Facts – ºÚÁÏÍø Department of Pharmacology
A little history: Originally founded by William MacNider in 1906 as the Laboratory of Pharmacology, ºÚÁÏÍø boasts one of the ten original departments of pharmacology in the United States. Â The department admitted its first doctoral candidates in 1968 and first conferred its PhDs in 1971 to Jo Ann Nuite, Ahmed Mahgoub, and James Stephen Kennedy.
People
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- 78 faculty members
- 27 primary tenure-track appointees
- 21 tenure-track joint appointees
- 10 adjunct faculty at other institutions
- 20 research professors
- 78 graduate students and 45 postdoctoral scientists
Funding and Productivity
- Consistently ranks in the top tier of NIH funding in its field, Â
- for Research & Publications in Pharmacology (2021, U.S. News & World Report)
Space
- Located on the 4th Floor of the Genetic Medicine Building, completed 2008
Research strengths
- Signal transduction
- Cancer and antibiotic pharmacology
- Neuropharmacology
- Experimental therapeutics
- Network and pathway analysis and modeling