Physiology/Pharmacology doctoral candidate Joe Flores-Toro took first place the sixth annual Robert Levitt Institute for learning in retirement (ILR)/UF Aging Research Competition. Flores-Toro, who works in the lab of Pharmacology Associate Professor Jae-Sung Kim, gave his presentation on the role of calpastatin in aged ischemic livers. The competition…
Department of Pharmacology Assistant Professor Edgardo Rodriguez, Ph.D., has won the 2016 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors. Rodriguez was chosen for the award by a committee of Distinguished Professors and Eminent Scholars at University of Florida, who had to choose this year’s winner from a long list of faculty, each of whom…
Left to Right: Thomas Rowe, Ph.D, Jeffrey Martens, Ph.D., Stephen Baker, Ph.D., and William Kem, Ph.D. Three Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics faculty members were recognized at the University of Florida College of Medicine Faculty Appreciation Reception held Wednesday. Among the honorees was Professor Emeritus Stephen Baker, Ph.D., who was…
The University of Florida Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics is delighted to announce the availability of basic research internships for the summer of 2016 through the new SURF Program. The SURF Program, an acronym for Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, is an immersive, 10-week program with mentored independent research, course work,…
An article co-authored by UF Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Professor Roger Papke, Ph.D., was published in the newest edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Papke collaborated on the article, “Critical molecular determinants of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor allosteric activation: separation of direct allosteric…
An article co-authored by UF Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Professor Roger Papke, Ph.D., was published in the newest edition of the Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy. Papke wrote the article, “Betel, the Orphan Addiction,” with Dr. Melissa Little from the University of Tennessee Health…
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Professor Brian K. Law had a review published in the current issue of Molecular Pharmacology. The review highlights the recent successes of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase (CDK) inhibitors in the clinic against breast cancer and suggests new routes to novel, non-ATP competitive CDK inhibitors using structure-based…
