Current Faculty

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

 Current Faculty

 Emeritus Professors

 Students & Alumni

 Administration

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


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


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


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


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


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


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

Guy Aaron Hobbs
Aaron Hobbs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Currently setting up laboratory

Lalima Ahuja
Lalima K. Madan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Protein-Phosphorylation based Signaling


Anand Mehta, D.Phil
Professor
Biomarker discovery


John P. O'Bryan, Ph.D.
Professor
Signal transduction, scaffold proteins, cancer, RAS, GTPases, intersectin


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

Russell Spencer-Smith, Ph.D.
Russell Spencer-Smith
Assistant Professor
Uncovering new vulnerabilities in the RAS-MAPK pathway through the study of rare disease-associated mutations


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


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

Zhiwei Ye 
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