Pharmacology Faculty
Karen Anderson
Professor of Pharmacology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Co-Director Therapeutics/Chemotherapy Program
Research Interests:Enzyme function; Anti-viral agents
Anton Bennett
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and of Comparative Medicine
Co-Director, Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism
Director, BBS Minority Affairs
Research Interests:Signal transduction; Protein tyrosine phosphatases; Cancer; Diabetes; Obesity; Muscle stem cells; Muscular dystrophy
Titus Boggon
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Structural biology of signal transduction
David Calderwood
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and of Cell Biology
Research Interests:Integrin; Cell adhesion; Cell migration; Cytoskeleton; Structural biology
Yung-Chi Cheng
Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology
Chairman, Consortium for the Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM)
Research Interests:Cancer; Viral chemotherapy; Chinese herbs; Chinese medicine
Jack Cooper
Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Pharmacology
Senior Research Scientist/Scho
Research Interests:Neuropharmacology
Craig Crews
Lewis B. Cullman Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry and of Pharmacology
Executive Director, Yale Molecular Discovery Center
Research Interests:Limb regeneration; wound epidermis; blastema; natural product mode of action studies; angiogenesis; Wnt signaling; protein turnover; protein kinase regulation
Michael DiGiovanna
Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Breast cancer; HER-2/neu/ErbB-2; IGF1 receptor; EGF receptor; Growth factor receptor tyrosine protein kinases in malignancy; estrogen receptor, signal transduction
Clinical Interests:Breast Cancer
Barbara Ehrlich
Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Intracellular calcium regulation
V. Eswarakumar
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFRs)
Ya Ha
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Membrane protein; X-ray crystallography; Enzyme mechanism
Robert Handschumacher
Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology
Michael Hodsdon
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and of Pharmacology
Assoc. Director, Clinical Chemistry Laboratory
Research Interests:Biochemistry; Biophysics; Breast Cancer; Clinical Chemistry; Drug Metabolism; Health and Medicine; Laboratory Practice or Procedure; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Pathobiology; Pharmacology; Spectroscopy; Structural Biology; Toxicology
Clinical Interests:Clinical chemistry; toxicology and testing for drugs of abuse; therapeutic drug monitoring; tandem mass spectrometry; protein analysis for detection of multiple myeloma
Sven-Eric Jordt
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Sense of touch and pain in humans and animals; Chemosensory processes in sensory neurons and their role in chemical environmental exposures; Neural sensitization in asthma; Hypersensitivity disorders
Leonard Kaczmarek
Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Learning and memory; Ion channels
Peter Klein
Lecturer in Pharmacology
Irit Lax
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Elias Lolis
Professor of Pharmacology
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests:Cancer; Inflammation; Infectious disease; macromolecular X-ray crystallography; Signaling pathways; Drug design; High throughput screening (HTPS)
Angus Nairn
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Dopaminergic signal transduction; Structure and function of protein kinases and phosphatases
Elijah Paintsil
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and of Pharmacology
Research Interests:HIV translational research; cellular pharmacology of HIV-RT inhibitors in relation to clinical toxicities; Fitness and evolution of HIV drug resistant mutants; Molecular epidemiology and dynamics of HIV/HCV transmission
Clinical Interests:Pediatric infectious diseases; pediatric HIV/AIDS - special interest in management of multi-drug-resistant HIV infection and management of pediatric HIV in resource-limited countries; and pediatric community acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections.
Marina Picciotto
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology
Assistant Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of Psychiatry
Research Interests:Neuroscience; Molecular basis of behavior; Intracellular signaling; Mouse genetic models
Sara Rockwell
Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and of Pharmacology
Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs
Research Interests:Microenvironmental heterogeneity in solid tumors; Experimental cancer therapy; Biological effects of ionizing radiation; Effects of hypoxia and low pH
Clinical Interests:Collaboration in the design and development of clinical trials resulting from research in our laboratory; participation in the activities of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation that support clinical and translational research at Yale.
Gary Rudnick
Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Neurotransmitter recycling; Mechanism of membrane transport
Alan Sartorelli
Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Cancer research; Drug development; Drug resistance
Joseph Schlessinger
William H. Prusoff Professor of Pharmacology
Chair, Pharmacology
Director, Cancer Biology Institute
Research Interests:Growth factor receptors; Intracellular signaling pathways;protein kinases; phosphorylation; SH2, SH3 and other protein modules involved in signal transduction; drug discovery
William Sessa
Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Vice Chairman, Pharmacology
Director, Vascular Biology & Therapeutics Program
Research Interests:Vascular endothelium and inflammation; MiRNAs; Vascular development and angiogenesis; Lipid domains and signaling; Atherosclerosis
Benjamin Turk
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Cell signaling; Protein kinases; Chemical biology; Proteomics; Metalloproteases; Protein engineering
Stephen Waxman
Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology
Director, Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research
Research Interests:Axons; Electrophysiology; Genes; Ion Channels; Molecular Biology; Multiple Sclerosis; Pain Syndromes; Sodium Channels; Spinal Cord Injury; Stroke
Dianqing (Dan) Wu
Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:Wnt; signal transduction; G protein, Chemotaxis;Cell migration; Cancer biology and therapeutics; Stem cell biology; Chemoattractant signaling; Inflammation
