In 1891, forty-one years after the University of Michigan Medical School began, the University established the first Department of Pharmacology in the United States. Its founder and first chair was John Jacob Abel, regarded as the Father of American Pharmacology.

Over the more than one hundred years since its start, our department has awarded more Ph.D. degrees in pharmacology than any other American university. Our graduates have made a major impact on the field of pharmacology. Among our alums are many pharmaceutical company executives, research directors and senior scientists; directors of government research labs; and recognized chairs and faculty in academia with reputations for both excellent research and teaching.

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Research News

May, 2012


Wednesday, May 16

Michael A. Hollingsworth, Ph.D., Professor, Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Title: Pancreatic Cancer: Biology, Diagnostics, Therapies


Thursday, May 17

2901 Taubman Medical Library

Cluster Hire Candidate: M. Julia Garcia-Fuster, Ph.D., Ramon y Cajal Researcher (MICINN-UIB), Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology, University Research Institute on Health Sciences (IUNICS), University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Title: Neurobiological and Behavioral Studies on Drug Abuse: The Adolescent Rodent Model


Friday, May 18

Cluster hire Faculty Candidate Chalk Talk (Faculty Only)

Cluster Hire Candidate: M. Julia Garcia-Fuster, Ph.D., Ramon y Cajal Researcher (MICINN-UIB), Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology, University Research Institute on Health Sciences (IUNICS), University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

Title: Neurobiological and Behavioral Consequences of Adolescent Experience: Implications for Addiction


June, 2012


Friday, June 15

39th Annual Pharmacology Research Colloquium

NCRC, University of Michigan

Keynote Speaker: Giora Fueurstein, Ph.D.


Wednesday, September 14, 2011

12:00 - 1:00 PM, room 2736 MS II

Dr. Vincent Groppi, Ph.D., Vice President and CSO Essen Bioscience

Title: Temporal Pharmacological Analysis of Angiogenesis and Metastasis

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

12:00 - 1:00 PM, room 2736 MS II

Dr. Vincent Groppi, Ph.D., Vice President and CSO Essen Bioscience

Title: Temporal Pharmacological Analysis of Angiogenesis and Metastasis

Congratulations to Jeremy McIntyre, Post-doctoral fellow in the Marten’s lab, who is the recipient of the Polak Young Investigator Award from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS).


Les Satin to visit Capitol Hill to advocate research funding.


New federal rankings: U-M again tops in research spending at public universities.


Congratulations to Jeff Martens for receiving the Rackham Graduate School’s 2012 Faculty Recognition Award.


Congratulations to Rick Neub
ig, M.D., Ph.D., who has been elected the President-Elect of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), the premiere professional society for more than 4,500 pharmacologists in academia, industry, research institutes, and governmental agencies.  In addition, John Tesmer was elected Chair Elect for the Division of Molecular Pharmac
ology of ASPET.  Congratulations, John!  Our congratulations also go out to Charles France, Ph.D., at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, who was elected Councilor for ASPET.  Charles earned his Ph.D. with Jim Woods, Ph.D., in our department and was also a Research Investigator in the department.  Details on the elections can be found at the ASPET Web site ( http://www.aspet.org/Page.aspx?id=2452).


Pharmacology graduates are essentially 100% employed, even in this current market.


Based on data from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Pharmacology majors, along with majors in five other fields, have a zero percent unemployment rate (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/10-college-majors-lowest-unemployment-rates-163049193.html)


Alumnus Remy Brim, Ph.D. (11’) recently wrote an article for Pharmtalk, The ASPET blog. Click here for the article.


Lori Isom, Ph.D. received James T. Neubacher Award.


The Department of Pharmacology is seeking applications from outstanding scientists for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. See Job Posting.





 

Congratulations:


Andrew Storaska has been awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant.


Diane Calinski and Jason Kehrl are recipients of the February 2012 Pharmacology Travel Award competition (Thomas Baum Travel Award).


Remy Brim (PhD with Drs. Jim Woods and Roger Sunahara, 2011), who has been selected to receive one of eight ProQuest Distinguished dissertation Awards of 2011.


Ryan Frieler who has been awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.


Kelly Clapp successfully defended her PhD, “Chaperone-Dependent Ubiquitination of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase” on Jan. 13, 2012. For the time being, Kelly will continue her work in the Osawa lab as a post-doctoral fellow.


Brendon Ladd successfully defended his PhD, “Exploring and Exploiting DNA Repair Mechanisms to Improve Suicide Gene Therapy with Ganciclovir” on Dec. 12, 2011. Brendon has accepted a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Dr. Johnathan Whetstine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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