Ph.D. Program

Eligible Ph.D. Mentors

Department Chair: Dr. James Potter
Graduate Program Director: Dr. Kerry Burnstein

Faculty Member   Research Interest
Nanette Bishopric, M.D.,F.A.C.C.
Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine

Cardiac Gene Expression 
John Bixby, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Director, UM Neuroscience Center

Neural Development  
Peter Buchwald, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Computer-Aided Quantitative Modeling, Physiochemical and Metabolic Aspects of Drug Design 
Kerry Burnstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology and Graduate Program Director

Steroid Hormone Action, Prostate Cancer 
Anthony Caswell, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology

Muscle Activation  
Gennaro D'Urso, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology; Dr. John T. MacDonald Foundation Center for Medical Genetics faculty member

Cell Cycle Control of DNA Replication 
Jeffrey Goldberg, M.D.,Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Survival and Regeneration in the Central Nervous System  
Abigail Hackam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Cellular mechanisms of retinal development and degeneration  
John Hackman, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Neuropharmacology; neurotransmitter and drug action on spinal cord function 
Joshua M. Hare, M.D.
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Louis Lemberg Professor of Medicine, Chief of Cardiology, Director, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute

Cardiac cell regeneration 
Yossef Itzhak, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Mechanism of action of substances of abuse and psychotropic agents  
Michael S. Kapiloff, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director, Cardiac Signal Transduction and Cellular Biology Laboratory

Signal transduction pathways of the cardiac myocyte 
Michael Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

The molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate dendrite morphogenesis and neural connectivity. 
Mary Lou King, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy

Genetic pathways for dorsal patterning, mesoderm induction and germ cell specification in the frog embryo; mRNA localization in the egg  
Sandra Lemmon, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology and Director, MD/PhD Program

Membrane Traffic: Roles of Clathrin, Actin and Phosphorylation 
Joy Lincoln, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Embryonic Heart Development Molecular and Cellular Regulation of Heart Valve Formation 
Irene Litosch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology

Phospholipase C  
Izidore Lossos, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Director Lymphoma Program

Medicine/Hematology 
Charles Luetje, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice-Chairman of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology Director Neuroscience Graduate Program

Structure and Function of Neurotransmitter Receptors 
Deborah C. Mash, Ph.D.
Professor or Neurology and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Cholinergic receptor architectonics in primate and human brain; in vitro autoradiographic studies of neurotransmitter receptors in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson syndrome 
James Potter, Ph.D., FAHA
Professor and Chairman of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology

Excitation-Activation Coupling in Muscle 
Pedro Salas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy

Polarization in epithelial cells; Role of the cytoskeleton and exocytis transport of membrane proteins 
Matthias Salathe, M.D.
Professor and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Cilia; mucus composition 
Sean Scully, M.D.,Ph.D.
Professor of Orthopaedics

Tumor biology 
Rakesh Singal, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine/Hematology/Oncology

Prostate cancer, epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, DNA methylation, chromatin structure, biomarkers 
Vladlen Z. Slepak, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

G Proteins 
Danuta Szczesna-Cordary, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology

Ca2+-regulation of Striated Muscle Contraction 
Fulvia Verde, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
Dr. John T. MacDonald Foundation Center for Medical Genetics Miami Yeast Group member

Control of cell morphogenesis in fission yeast 
Keith Webster, Ph.D. (Eboracum)
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology; Director of the Vascular Biology Institute; Walter G. Ross Chair of Vascular Biology

Myocardial ischemia, Apoptosis, Gene and Stem Cell Therapy  
R. Grace Zhai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Genetic and cellular basis of neural development. 
 

 

 

 

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