Directory A to Z
Professor
Focus areas: Psychiatric and behavioral phenotypes, epigenomics, transcriptomics, single-nucleus sequencing, personalized treatment response
Professor
Focus areas: Traumatic brain injury, brain injury biomarkers, neurocritical care pharmacotherapy, status epilepticus, hemostasis
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Cardiometabolic health, practice advancement, interprofessional care
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, compounding, community pharmacy, utilizing technology in the classroom
Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Critical care, scholarship of teaching and learning, pharmacist wellbeing
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Geriatrics, geriatric psychiatry, schizophrenia, mental illness, substance use disorders
Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences
Focus areas: Nanomedicine, pharmaceutical engineering, noninvasive drug & gene delivery, biomaterials, cancer nanotechnology, aerosol formulation
Chair of Medicinal Chemistry
Focus areas: Synthetic mimetics of glycosaminoglycans, allosteric modulators of coagulation factors, computational biology of glycosaminoglycans, medicinal chemistry of anti-cancer stem cell agents, biochemical mechanism of thrombopoiesis activation
Chair of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Science
Focus areas: Preventive cardiology, pharmacy practice, health outcomes research
Professor
Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, pharmacy education, geriatrics
Professor
Focus areas: Neuropsychiatric disorders (AD, depression, drugs of abuse, schizophrenia, pain) and their targets (LGIC receptors (nAChR, 5-HT3R); GPCRs (5-HT2, 5-HT2/mGlu2); transporters (SERT, DAT, NET, OCT1-3))
Interim Program Director, B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Focus areas: Early-stage drug hit & lead discovery, synthetic chemistry methodology development, discovery & development of oncology agents, natural products as chemical probes & drug leads, small molecule drug discovery & development
Clinical Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Cardiology, anticoagulation, diabetes
Director of the Center for Compounding Practice and Research
Focus areas: Compounding, pharmacy technician training programs
Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs
Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, pain management, substance use disorders
Professor
Focus areas: Immunizations, community based care, travel health
Professor
Focus areas: Oral bioavailability enhancement, drug transport and metabolism, novel oral formulations, bioanalytical techniques (e.g. HPLC/MS), pharmacokinetic characterization
Interim Director of International Programs
Focus areas: Anticoagulation, cardiology, scholarship of teaching and learning, cultural competency
Professor
Focus areas: Practice-based research, immunizations, innovations in practice
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, fellowship/residency prep, infectious diseases
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Membrane protein structural biology, structure-based drug design, cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, polymer chemistry
Bioanalytical Laboratory Director
Focus areas: Toxicology, quantitative biopharmaceutical analysis, biorelevant in vitro release testing and devices, large molecule LC-MS/MS
Congressional Healthcare Policy Fellow
Director, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Proteomics Shared Resource
Focus areas: Chemoproteomics methods for discovering investigational drug targets and complex carbohydrate-protein interactions, quantitative glycoproteomics workflow development (i.e., TMT-labeling, off-line UHPLC fractionation, MS/MS method, and data analysis) for comparative analysis of hematopoietic tissues and cells, gas-phase MS/MS sequencing strategy development for improving glycosaminoglycan structural analysis
Peter R. Byron Distinguished Professor
Focus areas: Aerosol drug delivery to the lungs, dry powder surfactant delivery to neonates, inhalation formulation development
Professor
Focus areas: Health Economics and Outcomes Research, entrepreneurship, scholarship of teaching and learning
Research Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Study of extracellular vesicle cargo and its role in disease mechanisms, development of advanced methodologies for the isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles, utilization of extracellular vesicles as diagnostic tools for various diseases, application of extracellular vesicle properties for advanced and innovative treatment strategies
Professor Emeritus
Focus areas: Computational medicinal chemistry, computer-aided drug discovery, structural biology
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Chronic kidney disease, electrolyte disorders, hypertension, scholarship of teaching, learning, and assessment
Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Cancer biology, cancer epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, drug discovery
Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Infectious diseases, internal medicine, scholarship of teaching and learning
Associate Dean for Admissions and Strategic Engagement
Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, interprofessional education, recruitment and strategic enrollment
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Pharmacogenomics, functional genomics, epigenomics, central nervous system drug response, central nervous system disorders
Assistant Research Professor
Focus areas: Aerosol formulation development, dry powder surfactant delivery to neonates, characterization, drug-device combination, solid-state stability, inhalation research
Research Associate Professor
Focus areas: X-ray Crystallography, structure-function studies of macromolecules, structure-based drug design, protein-ligand, protein-DNA interactions
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Health service use patterns, health outcomes assessment studies, oncology
Research Scientist
Focus areas: Computational structural biology, glycobiology, drug discovery, virtual screening, molecular dynamics simulation, docking, algorithm design, AI, and crystallography
Dean
Focus areas: Leadership, geriatrics, community engagement, culture change, anticoagulation
Research Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Drug discovery and development, structure-based drug design, pharmacology, chemical biology, structure biology
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Diabetes, pharmacy practice advancement, post-graduate training for pharmacy students, scholarship of teaching and learning
Research Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Drug development, drug optimization, ocular diseases, lung diseases, peripheral pain conditions
Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Scholarship of teaching and learning, ambulatory care pharmacy practice
Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Quality improvement, pharmacoeconomics, health economics
Professor
Focus areas: Protein structure/function relationships, x-ray crystallography, hemoglobin allosteric effectors, sickle cell disease drug discovery, vitamin B6 metabolism and regulation
Director, Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation
Focus areas: Pharmacists’ role improving medication use and health outcomes in primary care, pharmacists' scope of practice and prescribing authority in virginia, health care quality, treatment discontinuation decisions in patients with breast cancer experiencing chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
Professor
Focus areas: Diabetes, weight management, interprofessional care
Chair of Pharmaceutics
Focus areas: Drug transporters, drug disposition, barrier membrane function, triple negative breast cancer, mRNA therapeutic formulation and delivery
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Focus area: Structure based drug design and development
Director of Center for Biomarker Research and Precision Medicine
Professor
Focus areas: Cardiology, myocardial infarction, heart failure, inflammation, clinical trials
Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Cardiometabolic disease, clinical pharmacy service development, patient-centered care, scholarship of teaching and learning
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Nanomedicine, drug delivery, biomaterials, ocular diseases, opioid use disorder, pulmonary drug delivery and aerosol
Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Supportive care in hematology/oncology, gynecologic oncology, chemotherapy dose optimization, perception of pharmacy practice
Professor
Focus areas: Small molecule drug discovery, Alzheimer's diseases, chemical biology, Imaging probe development
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Geriatrics, deprescribing, medication appropriateness, cognitive disorders, workforce development
