These adjunct faculty members complement the skills and expertise of our core, full-time pharmacology and physiology faculty.
Meet our full-time faculty.Secondary and Adjunct Faculty
- Jahan Ara, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Drexel College of Medicine
Occupation: Research Assistant Professor
Interests: Neonatal hypoxia; neurodegeneration
Contact: jara@drexelmed.edu
- Benjamin Blass, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Temple University School of Pharmacy and Blass Patent Associates
Occupation: Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and US Patent Agent
Interests: Medicinal chemistry; patent law
Contact: Blassbe@verizon.net
- Gilbert Block, M.D., Ph.D.
Affiliation: Self-Employed
Occupation: Consultant
Interests: Central nervous system disorders and drug development
Contact: DrGilBlock@aol.com
- Michael R. Brandt, Ph.D.
Interests: Pain and Pain Therapeutics; behaviroal pharmacology
Contact: MichaelRBrandt@yahoo.com
- Elinor H. Cantor, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Consultant
Interests: Pharmacology and consulting
Contact: ecantor@cjres.com
- Diane L. DeHaven-Hudkins, Ph.D.
Interests: Pain and Pain Therapeutics
Contact: dldhudkins@verizon.net
- Timi Edeki, M.D. , Ph.D.
Affiliation: AstraZeneca
Occupation: Senior Director, Clinical Pharmacology DMPK
Interests: Drug disposition and response; botanical-drug interactions; personalized medicine & pharmacogenomics
Contact: Timi.Edeki@astrazeneca.com
- Masiej Gasior, M.D., Ph.D.
Affiliation: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Occupation: Medical Director, Discovery Medicine, Neuroscience
Interests: In vivo neuropsychopharmacology; behavioral pharmacology; addiction; epilepsy; pain
Contact: maciej.gasior@bms.com
- Hugo Geerts, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Silico Biosciences
Occupation: Chief Scientific Officer
Interests: Neuropharmacology; modeling and simulation of complex brain networks in CNS diseases
Contact: Hugo-Geerts@In-Silico-Biosciences.com
- Linda Hiner, M.D.
Occupation: Retired Physician
Interests: Renal physiology
Contact: lh26@drexel.edu
- Peter H. Hutson, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Shire Pharmaceuticals
Occupation: Director, CNS Disorders
Interests: Neuropharmacology; psychiatric disorders; sleep
Contact: Petehutson2@gmail.com
- William Kinney, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, Doylestown
Interests: Medicinal Chemistry
- Lars Knutsen, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Discovery Pharma, LLC
Occupation: President
Interests: Medicinal chemistry; drug R & D; design of new drugs for neurological disorders & neurodegeneration, adenosine and its receptors
Contact: lars@discoverypharm.com
- Sandhya Kortagere, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Drexel University College of Medicine
Occupation: Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Interests: Computational Chemistry
Contact: skortage@drexelmed.edu
- Ken Korzekwa, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Temple University School of Pharmacy
Occupation: Professor
Interests: Drug design and pharmacokinetics
Contact: korzekwa@temple.edu
- Patrick Y. Lam, Ph.D.
Affiliation: PA Drug Discovery Institute
Occupation: Associate PRofessor of Chemistry/Consultant
Interests: Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Development
Contact: Patrick.ys.lam@gmail.com
- Laura Lubbers, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Merck
Occupation: Senior Research Biologist
Interests: RNAi Therapeutics
Contact: Laura_Lubbers@merck.com
- Richard Mangano, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Adolor Corporation
Occupation: VP Clinical Research and Development
Interests: Clinical trials; drug discovery and development
Contact: richard.mangano@verizon.net
- Michael J. Marino, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Merck Research Laboratories
Occupation: Group Leader, Electrophysiology, InVivo Pharmacology, Pain
Interests: Psychiatric disorders; CNS drug discovery
Contact: Michael.marino@merck.com
- Andrea McCurry, M.S.
Affiliation: Drexel University College of Medicine
Occupation: Assistant Director, ULAR
Interests: Laboratory animal care and supervision
Contact: andrea.mccurry@drexelmed.edu
- Julian Mesina, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Drexel University College of Medicine
Occupation: Assistant Professor; Animal Sciences Program Director, Professional Studies of the Health Sciences
Interests: Respiratory physiology; zoonotic disease in public health
Contact: jmesina@drexelmed.edu
- Jennifer Nasser, Ph.D., R.D.
Affiliation: Drexel University
Occupation: Assistant Professor
Interests: Dopamine-mediated mechanisms for food intake over & under-consumption in humans; effects of nutrients on memory & cognition in humans
Contact: jan57@drexel.edu
- Eliot Ohlstein, Ph.D.
Affiliation: AltheRx Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Occupation: Chief Scientific Officer/Head of Research and Development
Interests: Drug discovery & development
Contact: eliot@altherx.com
- Boris Polyak, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Drexel University College of Medicine
Occupation: Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Interests: Nanoparticles for drug delivery; regenerative medicine
Contact: bpolyak@drexelmed.edu
- Allen Reitz, Ph.D.
Affiliation: PA Center for Drug Discovery/ALS Biopharma, LLS & Fox Chase Chemical Diversity Center
Occupation: Director/CEO
Interests: Drug discovery
Contact: AReitz@pcdd.us
- Robert Ring, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Autism Speaks
Occupation: Vice President of Translational Research
Interests: Autism spectrum disorders research; mood disorders research; drug discovery & development and neuropeptide research
Contact: robert.ring@autismspeaks.org
- Jospeh W. Romano, Ph.D.
Affiliation: NWJ Group
Occupation: President
Interests: HIV/Infectious disease; drug development
Contact: NWJGroup@gmail.com
- Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson, Ph.D.
Affiliation: IVS Consulting LLC
Occupation: President
Interests: Translational medicine; In vivo models; drug discovery
Contact: ivs.srlipson@gmail.com
- Daniel V. Schidlow, M.D.
Affiliation: Drexel University College of Medicine
Occupation: Dean; Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Interests: Cystic fibrosis and pulmonary conditions in children
Contact: daniel.schidlow@drexelmed.edu
- Barry Waterhouse, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Drexel University College of Medicine
Occupation: Vice Dean, Biomedical Graduate & Postgraduate Studies; Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy Department
Interests: Neurobiology of central monoaminergic systems; multi-channel, multi-neuron recording; cellular and circuit-level actions of psychostimulants drugs; ADHD
Contact: waterhouse@drexelmed.edu
- Michael M. White, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Drexel University College of Medicine
Occupation: Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Interests: Ion channel structure-function relationships; ligand-receptor interactions; electrophysiology
Contact: mwhite@drexelmed.edu
- Michael Williams, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Affiliation/Occupation: Retired
Interests: Drug discovery and neuropharmacology
Contact: rivoli1635@comcast.net
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