Current Faculty

The Pharmacology Department at MUSC is home to dedicated, award-winning faculty, students, researchers, and staff.

Our faculty members hold 3 South Carolina Centers of Excellence Chairs, and our funded programs emphasize the department’s strengths in signaling & drug development.

Peggi Angel, Ph.D.
Associate  Professor
Systems-based Approaches to Heart Valve Development and Disease
Angel Lab

Lauren E. Ball, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Role of O-GlcNAc Glycosylation in the Regulation of Insulin/IGF-1 Receptor Signal Transduction Pathways
Ball Lab

Jennifer R. Bethard, M.S.
Research Associate
Mass Spectrometry

Joe B. Blumer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Role of G-protein Regulatory (GPR) Proteins in Mammalian Cell Division and the Immune System
Blumer Lab

Michael Bouchard, Ph.D.
Professor

Aguirre De cubas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Nathan Dolloff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Drug Discovery Focus in B and Plasma Cell Malignancies
Dolloff Lab

Richard R. Drake, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
Glycoprotein Biomarkers of Cancer and Mass Spectrometry Imaging
Drake Lab

Scott T. Eblen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Signal Transduction in Cancer Biology
Eblen Lab

Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Designing and developing engineered immune cell therapies for autoimmune disease, cancer, and aging.

Xueliang Gao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Tumorigenesis and translational oncology

Radhika Gudi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Identifying the canonical and non-canonical regulatory mechanisms that contribute towards centrosome structure and function, endocytic vesicular trafficking pathways and tumor suppression
Gudi Lab

Azizul Haque, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Antigen presentation, tumor immunobiology, inflammation, CNS disorders, autoimmunity
Haque Lab

Wei Jiang, M.D.
Professor
HIV pathogenesis, toll-like receptor and innate immunity, sex differences in human immune responses, and lupus pathogenesis
Jiang Lab

Laura Kasman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medical Education Director for Microbiology and Immunology

Anand Mehta, D.Phil
Professor
Biomarker discovery
Mehta Lab

Kengo Nozaki, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Innate Sensor and Cell Death
Nozaki Lab

Richard O'Neil, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Immune system in disease and treatment of disease. Specifically, we are interested in the role played by T cells and in developing ways to manipulate adaptive immunity, using engineered T cells as tools for therapy and for discovery.

Sophie Paczesny, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, cancer immune tumor microenvironment, inflammation, alarmins, T lymphocyte biology
Paczesny Lab

Janardan Pandey, Ph.D.
Professor
Allotypes, Fcgamma receptor genes, ADCC, humoral immunity.
Pandey Lab

Steven A. Rosenzweig, Ph.D.
Professor
Growth Factor Dysregulation in Cancer
Rosenzweig Lab

Michael Schmidt, Ph.D.
Professor
Controlling acquistion of hospital acquired infections, pandemic preparations and disaster preparedness, bacterial pathogenesis
Schmidt Lab

Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc
Professor and Department Chairman
Cancer Drug Development
Tew Lab

Stephen Tomlinson, Ph.D.
Professor and Interim Chair for Research & Faculty Development
The complement system in inflammation, alloimmunity, cancer immunity and CNS injury
Tomlinson Lab

Chenthamarakshan Vasu, Ph.D.
Professor
Mucosal immunology, gut microbiota-host interactions, immune tolerance mechanisms, and targeted therapies for autoimmunity and inflammation.
Vasu Lab

Haizhen Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cell cycle proteins in cancer progression
Wang Lab

Zhiwei Ye, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Redox and drug development in cancer

Jie Zhang, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Redox and drug development in cancer

Hailong Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Enteric Nervous System, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Infection, Inflammation and Cancer
Zhang Lab