Who We Are

The Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics has 32 full-time and secondary faculty members who oversee 20 graduate students and 19 post-doctoral fellows.

Our department chairman is Dr. Edson Albuquerque, MD, PhD, who was recently awarded a three-year, $1 million grant from the Department of the Army's Defense Threat Agency, under the FY06 Medical Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology Program, for his work seeking countermeasures to nerve agent toxicity.

The Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics is also home to Dr. Angela Brodie, whose groundbreaking work in developing aromatase inhibitors, a new class of breast cancer drugs, led her to become the first woman to win General Motors' Charles F. Kettering Prize, an international award recognizing the most recent contribution to the diagnosis or treatment of cancer. She has also received the prestigious Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Prize for Translational Cancer Research, the largest prize awarded to cancer researchers by a professional society of their peers.

Graduates of our department have taken a variety of career paths. Some are using their training in pharmacology to enhance their careers as practicing physicians in hospitals and private practice. Others are passing on their knowledge by becoming teachers. And the majority are continuing to pursue their research careers, finding success at such prestigious institutions as NIH and Harvard.

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