Basic science and clinical research faculty members explore many different cellular and body processes in their search for answers to challenging basic science and health-related questions. Enjoy meeting these brilliant men and women as they describe (in plain English) what drives them in their chosen research fields and the positive impact they are making for Arkansas and the nation. Click “play” to watch a brief YouTube video.
Addiction, Drug Design/Discovery, and Drug Toxicity
Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy
Research Interest: Bioactive compounds from natural origin; Medicinal chemistry
Professor, Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Drug abuse treatments affecting concentration/time in the body
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Medicine
Research Interests: Antibody-based medications to treat chronic and acute methamphetamine (METH) abuse
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Medicine
Research Interests: Behavioral pharmacology; Drug interactions
Aging
Professor, Director Reynolds Inst. on Aging; Chair, Geriatrics, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Effects of aging on the heart
Birth Defects & Development
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Nutrition of biotin and human development
Bone
Stavros C. Manolagas, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Dir., Endocrinology and Metabolism, Osteoporosis/ Metabolic Bone Diseases Center, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Vitamin D metabolism, immune system, osteoporosis
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Bone formation and disease/osteoporosis
Professor, Div. of Endocrinology, Internal Medicine, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for osteoporosis
Cancer
Associate Professor, Director of Radiation Biology Div., College of Medicine
Research Interest: Blood flow response, tissue oxygenation and cancer growth/metastasis in response to experimental therapeutics
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Research Interest: Epigenetics, proteomics and cancer
Cardiovascular
Professor, Chair, Pharmacology/Toxicology, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Calcium ion abnormalities and high blood pressure
Jean McSweeney, Ph.D., RN, FAHA, FAAN
Professor, Director, Nursing Ph.D. program, College of Nursing
Research Interest: Coronary heart disease in women including symptoms, risk factors and biomarkers; cardiac rehabilitation, bio-behavioral intraventions
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy
Research Interest: Radiation-induced heart disease, and medical countermeasures against radiological/nuclear accidents
Director, Experimental Pathology Division, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Cardiovascular and inflammation
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine
Research Interests: clarify the role of platelets in hemostasis, thrombosis and in the development of cardiovascular disease
Infectious Disease
Professor, Director, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Inflammatory Responses (CMPHIR), Microbiology & Immunology; Dept. of Orthopedics, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Staphylococcus aureus infections
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Malaria
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Coxiella burnetii
Liver
Professor, Chair, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Protein interactions, aging, hepatitis
Stroke
Professor, Director, Radiology Research, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Ultrasound/microbubbles to destroy clots and cancer; Nanoscience
Neurobiology
Professor, Chair, Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
Professor, Neurobiology & Develop. Sciences; Director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
Professor, Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, College of Medicine
Research Interest: Multiple Sclerosis, Immune responses in the brain
