Current Faculty

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

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

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Peggi Angel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor 

Focus: Systems-based Approaches to Heart Valve Development and Disease 

Angel Lab

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Lauren E. Ball, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Role of O-GlcNAc Glycosylation in the Regulation of Insulin/IGF-1 Receptor Signal Transduction Pathways

Ball Lab

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Jennifer R. Bethard, M.S.

Research Associate

Focus: Mass Spectrometry

 

Joe B. Blumer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Role of G-protein Regulatory (GPR) Proteins in Mammalian Cell Division and the Immune System

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Aguirre De Cubas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Nathan Dolloff 

Nathan Dolloff, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Drug Discovery Focus in B and Plasma Cell Malignancies

Dolloff Lab

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Richard R. Drake, Jr., Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Glycoprotein Biomarkers of Cancer and Mass Spectrometry Imaging

Drake Lab

 

Scott T. Eblen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Signal Transduction in Cancer Biology

Eblen Lab

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Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Designing and developing engineered immune cell therapies for autoimmune disease, cancer, and aging.

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Xueliang Gao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Tumorigenesis and translational oncology

Gao Lab

Radhika Gudi 

Radhika Gudi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Identifying regulatory mechanisms influencing centrosome structure & function, endocytic vesicular trafficking pathways & tumor suppression.

Gudi Lab

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Azizul Haque, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Antigen presentation, tumor immunobiology, inflammation, CNS disorders, autoimmunity

Haque Lab

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Wei Jiang, M.D.

Professor

Focus: HIV pathogenesis, toll-like receptor and innate immunity, sex differences in human immune responses, and lupus pathogenesis

Jiang Lab

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Laura Kasman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Medical Education Director, Microbiology & Immunology

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Anand Mehta, D.Phil

Professor

Focus: Biomarker discovery

Mehta Lab

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Kengo Nozaki, MD, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Innate Sensor and Cell Death

Nozaki Lab

Richard O'Neil 

Richard O'Neil, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: 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. 

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Sophie Paczesny, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, cancer immune tumor microenvironment, inflammation, alarmins, T lymphocyte biology

Paczesny Lab

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Janardan Pandey, Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Allotypes, Fcgamma receptor genes, ADCC, humoral immunity

Pandey Lab

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Steven A. Rosenzweig, Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Growth Factor Dysregulation in Cancer

Rosenzweig Lab 

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Michael Schmidt, Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Controlling acquisition of hospital acquired infections, pandemic preparations and disaster preparedness, bacterial pathogenesis

Schmidt Lab

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Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc

Professor

Focus: Cancer Drug Development

Tew Lab

Stephen Tomlinson 

Stephen Tomlinson, Ph.D.

Professor and Interim Chair for Research & Faculty Development

Focus: The complement system in inflammation, alloimmunity, cancer immunity and CNS injury.

Tomlinson Lab

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Chenthamarakshan Vasu, Ph.D.

Professor

Focus: Mucosal immunology, gut microbiota-host interactions, immune tolerance mechanisms, and targeted therapies for autoimmunity and inflammation.

Vasu Lab

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Haizhen Wang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Focus: Cell cycle proteins in cancer progression

Wang Lab

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Zhiwei Ye, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

Focus: Redox and drug development in cancer

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Jie Zhang, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

Focus: Redox and drug development in cancer

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Hailong Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Enteric Nervous System, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Infection, Inflammation and Cancer

Zhang Lab