Faculty
Faculty members provide opportunities for students to study in three of the main areas of the discipline. Our medicinal chemistry faculty allows students to explore all aspects of drug design and discovery, including computational methods, structure-activity studies, synthetic methods development and natural products chemistry. Our pharmacology team allows students to engage in studying the cellular signaling pathways that are important in disease processes and the mechanism of action of drug candidates for treating the resulting diseases, including pharmacogenomic aspects of patient populations. Our pharmaceutics faculty guides students in the study of mathematical, computational and experimental methods to study the pharmacokinetics (ADME) of drug molecules in vivo, as well as all aspects of drug delivery.
Mike Crider, PhD
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
1975, University of Kentucky
Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry
Joe Schober, PhD
Graduate Program Director
2003, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Pharmacology and Cell Biology
Radhika Devraj, PhD
1999, Purdue University
Patient-Reported Outcomes, Intervention Research, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Gireesh Gupchup, PhD, FAPhA
1996, Purdue University
Health Services Research in Underserved Populations, Educational Methods
Bill Kolling, PhD
1997, University of Iowa
Pharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics
Maria Kontoyianni, PhD
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Guim Kwon, PhD
1992, University of Michigan
Tim McPherson, PhD
1995, Purdue University
Drug Delivery, Drug Product Stability
William L. Neumann, PhD
1987, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Marcelo Nieto, PhD
1999, the National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry, Natural Products, Analytical Chemistry
Karin Sandoval, PhD
2004, University of Arizona
Cathy Santanello, PhD
1989, St. Louis University
Vector (tick, flea) and Water-Borne Pathogens, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Walter Siganga, PhD
1991, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Ken Witt, PhD
2001, University of Arizona
Pharmacology and Toxicology, Drug Discovery
Ron Worthington, PhD
1982, Washington University
Human Genomics, Pharmacogenomics, Precision Medicine
