program: Physiology and Pharmacology

Scientist Dr. Hye Young Lee and her team have found a new way to use the gene editing technology CRISPR and recently published their findings in the July issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Read More →

The Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund is giving $1.45 million to the university to support three innovative research projects and one pilot research project, all conducted by rising young faculty studying cancer and cardiovascular disease. Read More →

Kenneth M. Hargreaves, D.D.S., Ph.D., has won the Outstanding Research Accomplishment (Individual/Academia) Award from the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS). Read More →

A quick Q&A with Dr. Gangadhara Reddy Sareddy, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology Read More →

Dr. Kelly Grimes is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Jeff Molkentin in the Molecular Cardiovascular Biology Department at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Read More →

Congratulations to graduate students Melodi Bowman, Michelle Doyle and Hudson Smith who won best poster presentations at The Department of Pharmacology annual graduate student symposium. Read More →

Doug Frantz and April Risinger received a $200,000 grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to create new cancer drugs from complex natural products that have proven to be enormously effective in fighting the most aggressive types of cancer. Read More →

Dr. Martin Paukert has been featured in Future Magazine for his work on astroglia cells and their interaction with neurons in the brain. These cells may play a role in slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Read More →