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Who We Are

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.

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

 

Peggi Angel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Focus: Systems-based Approaches to Heart Valve Development and Disease
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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
 
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 and Dean, College of Graduate Studies
 
Aguirre De Cubas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
 
Nathan Dolloff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Focus: Drug Discovery Focus in B and Plasma Cell Malignancies
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Richard R. Drake, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: Glycoprotein Biomarkers of Cancer and Mass Spectrometry Imaging
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Scott T. Eblen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Focus: Signal Transduction in Cancer Biology
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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.
 
Xueliang Gao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Tumorigenesis and translational oncology
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Radhika Gudi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Identifying regulatory mechanisms influencing centrosome structure & function, endocytic vesicular trafficking pathways & tumor suppression.
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Azizul Haque, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Focus: Antigen presentation, tumor immunobiology, inflammation, CNS disorders, autoimmunity
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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
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Laura Kasman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medical Education Director, Microbiology & Immunology
 
Anand Mehta, D.Phil
Professor
Focus: Biomarker discovery
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Kengo Nozaki, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Innate Sensor and Cell Death
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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
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Janardan Pandey, Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: Allotypes, Fcgamma receptor genes, ADCC, humoral immunity
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Steven A. Rosenzweig, Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: Growth Factor Dysregulation in Cancer
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Michael Schmidt, Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: Controlling acquisition of hospital acquired infections, pandemic preparations and disaster preparedness, bacterial pathogenesis
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Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc
Professor
Focus: Cancer Drug Development
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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.
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Haizhen Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Focus: Cell cycle proteins in cancer progression
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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
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