Membership
Join the Center for Drug Discovery to collaborate with other researchers to facilitate drug discovery at different stages of the development pipeline, including assay development and validation, high-throughput screening (HTS) and image-based high-content screening (HCS) discovery, hit-to-lead validation and optimization, and in vitro and in vivo pharmacology and toxicology. All CU faculty and faculty at participating Colorado academic institutions interested in drug discovery are eligible for full Membership. Full Members will benefit from discounted rates to utilize the Drug Discovery and Development Shared Resource (D3SR). In addition, individuals from industry or other institutions outside of Colorado may participate as Associate Members.
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Members
Dan LaBarbera, PhD
Professor and Director, CU AMC Center for Drug Discovery
Co-Director, Drug Discovery and Development Shared Resource (D3SR)
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
drug design, drug mechanism(s) of action, HTS/HCS Drug Discovery, in vitro and in vivo pharmacokinetics and toxicology, in vitro and in vivo pharmacology, molecular and cancer biology, organic and medicinal chemistry
Steven Abman, MD
Professor
Pediatrics-Pulmonary Medicine
Areas of Expertise:
pulmonary hypertension, neonatal lung disease
Peter Anderson, PharmD
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
antiviral therapy, HIV, stable labeled tracers, objective measures of adherence
Christina Aquilante, PharmD
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
pharmacogenomics. personalized medicine
David Bain, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
biophysical characterization of therapeutic macromolecules, mechanisms of transcriptional regulation, thermodynamics of protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions
Carlos E. Catalano, PharmD, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
enzymology, biochemistry, biophysics, physical virology, nanotherapeutics
Kristofer Fritz, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
pathogenic mechanisms of alcohol-associated liver disease, proteomics, post-translational modifications, sirtuin biology
Morkos Henen, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research)
Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Areas of Expertise:
NMR, Drug-Discovery, FBDD, MST, SPT, ITC, Protein and nucleic acid
Jay Hesselberth, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Areas of Expertise:
RNA damage and repair, RNA therapies, single-cell technology development
Melanie Joy, PharmD, PhD, FASN, FCCP
Professor
Director for Pharmaceutical Science Innovation and Commercialization
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
drug development, entrepreneurship, nephrotoxicity, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenetics, clinical pharmacology, kidney diseases, translational research
Jennifer Kiser, PharmD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
antiviral clinical pharmacology, adherence biomarkers
Uday Kompella, PhD, FARVO, FAAPS
Professor
Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ophthalmology, and Bioengineering
Areas of Expertise:
ophthalmic drug discovery, delivery, and development, nanomedicines for drug and gene delivery
Andrew Kraft , MD
Professor of Medicine
past Division Director Medical Oncology
Areas of Expertise:
signaling, kinases, prostate cancer, leukemia, cell biology, drug discovery
Kristi Kuhn, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Medicine-Rheumatology
Areas of Expertise:
microbiome, mucosal immunology, arthritis
Traci Lyons, PhD
Associate Professor
Medicine-Medical Oncology
Areas of Expertise:
Breast Cancer, cell signaling, cell biology, developmental biology
Krishna Mallela, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
protein structure and function
Rebecca McCullough, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
innate immunity, complement, tissue fibrosis, liver disease
Wells Messersmith, MD, FACP, FASCO
Professor and Head
Division of Medical Oncology
Areas of Expertise:
gastrointestinal cancers, preclinical models, phase I clinical trials, signal transduction, cancer immunotherapy
Stephanie Nakano, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics-Cardiology
Areas of Expertise:
pediatric cardiology, pediatric heart failure / transplantation
Anatoliy Pinchuk, PhD
Professor
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Areas of Expertise:
biophotonics, biosensors, nanotechnology, hyperthermia
Nichole Reisdorph, PhD, MS
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
mass spectrometry, metabolomics, proteomics, lung disease, nutrition
Peter J Rice, PharmD, PhD, BCPS, FAPhA
Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Areas of Expertise:
pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, compounding
David Ross, PhD
Professor and Chair Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
drug development, pharmacogenomics, quinone reductases, Quinones, selective toxicity of antitumor agents, targeting of antitumor agents
Robert Scheinman, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Areas of Expertise:
immunology, molecular biology, pharmacology
Gregory Way, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Areas of Expertise:
image data analysis, systems biology, machine learning, data science, software engineering, cancer
Alexandra Whiteley, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Areas of Expertise:
cell biology; ubiquitin; proteasome; retroelements; ubiquilin; ALS
Rui Zhao, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Areas of Expertise:
mechanism of splicing; drug discovery targeting transcription factor in breast cancer
Eric Poeschla, MD
Tim Gill Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Areas of Expertise:
Virology, innate immunity, autoimmunity