You are encouraged to visit individual faculty pages for an in depth look at laboratories and research in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience.
Research focus: Molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for cardiovascular complications in individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM), and identify therapeutic strategies that could be used to slow their progression. |
Research focus: Therapeutic strategies that may enhance neural function and survival in NeuroAIDS, with possible implication in other neurodegenerative diseases. |
Research focus: HIV/SIV/SHIV, neuroAIDS, transmission, drugs of abuse, HIV cure, gut homing molecules |
Research focus: Protein structure and functions; proteomics. |
Research focus: HIV-1, Humanized mice, nanoART, Pharmacodynamics, HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND), drug-drug interaction, detection and targeting of HIV-1 reservoirs, HIV-1 elimination, CRISPR-Cas9 based targeting |
Research focus: HIV-1, tuberculosis, medicinal chemistry, polymer chemistry, drug delivery, theranostics, LASER ART (Long acting slow effective release antiretroviral therapy). |
Research focus: Investigate Th1 and Th2 cell responses in Parkinson's disease; study the role of mononuclear phagocytes in neurotoxicity and neuroregeneration in HIV dementia |
Research focus: Mouse models for HIV; humanized mouse model to study HIV vaccine strategies to induce protective immune responses and immune-based therapeutics to enhance HIV immune responses; HIV pathogenesis. |
Research focus: Genome editing technology development and animal model designing |
Research focus: HIV, drugs of abuse, exosomes, non-coding RNAs |
Research focus: Neuroimmunology, drug development, neurogenesis and neurorepair |
Research focus: HIV/AIDS, vascular biology and cell signaling |
Research focus: antiretroviral therapy, intrinsic doping of radioisotopes, molecular imaging technology, multimodal theranostic nanoparticles, nano-cocrystal, single photon emission computed tomography, biodistribution, synthesis and characterizations of nanomaterials, transformative nanotechnology |
Research topics: Immunology, HIV, Leukocytes, microglia, neuroinflammation, HIV-associated dementia. |
David McMillan, PhD Research focus: Mechanisms of toxicity of drugs and environmental chemicals; mechanism underlying pro-oxidant drug-induced hemolytic anemia , and in the metabolism and toxicity of the environmental contaminant, trichloroethylene |
Research focus: Developing nanoformulations of antiretroviral drugs and testing these in cell-based and animal model systems |
Research focus: Development of drugs for modulating NMDA receptor activity for treating schizophrenia and autism. |
Research focus: Regulation of T Lymphocyte function; T cell-mediated immunity in neurodegenerative disorders. |
Research focus: How substances such as alcohol and organic dust effect the airways and how these substances alter bronchial responsiveness as well as inflammation in the airways. |
Research focus: Drugs of abuse, HIV, autophagy, endoplasmic reticulum stress, epigenetics, microRNAs |
Research focus: Pathogenesis and treatment of HIV-1 associated dementia; translational mouse models for human-specific diseases |
Research focus: HIV, drugs of abuse, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s Disease, autophagy, long non-coding RNA, exosomes |
Research focus: Regulation of G protein-coupled receptors and their signaling pathways; lysophosphatidic acid and its receptors in lung disease; epidermal growth factor receptors and protease signaling in agricultural dust-induced lung disease, oxytocin receptors and signaling in primate social behavior. |
Research focus: Alzheimer's disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Frontotemporal dementia, Multiple sclerosis, Neurodegenerative diseases, Mitochondrial dysfunction, Mitochondrial dynamics, Neuroinflammation, TDP-43 proteinopathy, Aβ, tau, Neuromuscular junction. |
Research focus: Molecular and cellular underlying HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders. |
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