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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.

Peggi Angel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

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

Lauren E. Ball, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

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

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

Michael Bouchard, Ph.D.
Professor

Aguirre De Cubas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Nathan Dolloff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Focus: Drug Discovery Focus in B and Plasma Cell Malignancies
Dolloff Lab

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

Leonardo M. R. Ferreira, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

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

Xueliang Gao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Focus: Tumorigenesis and translational oncology
Gao Lab

Radhika Gudi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

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

Azizul Haque, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

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

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

Laura Kasman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Medical Education Director, Microbiology & Immunology

Anand Mehta, D.Phil
Professor

Focus: Biomarker discovery
Mehta Lab

Kengo Nozaki, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Focus: Innate Sensor and Cell Death
Nozaki Lab

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.

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

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

Janardan Pandey, Ph.D.
Professor

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

Steven A. Rosenzweig, Ph.D.
Professor

Focus: Growth Factor Dysregulation in Cancer
Rosenzweig Lab 

Michael Schmidt, Ph.D.
Professor

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

Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc
Professor

Focus: Cancer Drug Development
Tew Lab

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

Chenthamarakshan Vasu, Ph.D.
Professor

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

Haizhen Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Focus: Cell cycle proteins in cancer progression
Wang Lab

Zhiwei Ye, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor

Focus: Redox and drug development in cancer

Jie Zhang, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor

Focus: Redox and drug development in cancer

Hailong Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

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