Pharmacology department renamed
The Department of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine has changed its name to the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology. The new name reflects how research and teaching activities have evolved in the modern practice of pharmacology.
Bruce A. Freeman, Irwin Fridovich Professor and chair of the department, said: “Research in the department emphasizes the application of basic chemical principles to the understanding of cell-signaling events, with these new insights then translated into the creation and testing of new therapeutic strategies. Areas of discovery in the department that are warmly embraced by this approach include drug development, cancer pharmacology, organ systems pharmacology, receptor function and DNA repair processes.”
The principal goal of the department remains to create an intellectual and physical environment in which teaching and research in pharmacology and chemical biology are pursued as one common enterprise.
Ranked eighth in National Institutes of Health funding, the department is one of three to be ranked in the top 15 in NIH funding the past five years.
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