Assistant ProfessorToxicology Graduate Program Associate Director
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Focus:Complement-mediated tissue damageExtracellular vesicles and organ-organ crosstalkImmunotherapy and natural immunosuppressionInnate immunity and chronic liver diseases
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Focus:Environmental causes of neuronal injuryMitochondrial (dys)function and oxidative stress in epilepsy and neurodegenerationNeuroinflammation and redox signalingRedox-based small molecule therapeutics
Associate ProfessorComputational Chemistry and Biology Core Facility Director
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Focus:Chemical synthesis of heterocyclic compoundsComputational-based design of novel small moleculesDisrupting drug resistance mechanisms in cancer (DNA damage response)Targeting adaptive proteins and pathways in hypoxia (metabolic reprogramming)
Research Focus:Metabolomics lipidomics and proteomicsNovel informatics strategies applied to metabolomicsNutrimetabolomicsRole of oxylipins in inflammatory immune and lung diseaseUnderstanding role of host:microbiome metabolism in health and disease
Research Focus:Environmental causes of neurodegeneration e.g. maneb exposureMetabolic consequences of mitochondrial dysfunctionProteostasis and neurodegenerationThiol redox dysregulation in mechanisms of toxicity
Research Focus:Genetics of substance use disordersMulti-omics data integrationStatistical methods and bioinformatics techniques for studying complex genetic traitsTranscriptomics and systems genetics