Contact Information:

Ms. Lanette Flagge
Academic Advisor

Ronald Balczon, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Studies

BMS Graduate Program
MSB 3030
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688
(251)460-6153
lflagge@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
rbalczon@usouthal.edu

Abu-Bakr Al-Mehdi, M.D., Ph.D.
Mechanotransduction in vascular endothelial cells; mechanisms of metastasis formation in the lung.

June E. Ayling, Ph.D.
Structural biology and drug discovery.

Michael Chinkers, Ph.D.
Role of protein phosphorylation in receptor folding, activation, and trafficking.

Mark N. Gillespie, Ph.D.
Novel pharmacologic targets in antineoplastic therapy; regulation of p-glycoprotein and the multiple drug resistance phenotype.

Jack W. Olson, Ph.D.
Signal transduction in angiogenesis.

Jonathan G. Scammell, Ph.D.
Mechanisms of glucocorticoid resistance; characterization of neuroendocrine phenotype of cancer cells.

Stephen W. Schaffer, Ph.D.
Molecular consequences of diabetes on cardiomyocyte function.

Samuel J. Strada, Ph.D.
Role of phosphodiesterase isozymes in regulation of cyclic nucleotide metabolism; impact of phosphodiesterases in normal tissue and in pathophysiological models of disease.

Troy Stevens, Ph.D.
Signal transduction in angiogenesis.

Richard M. Whitehurst, M.D.
Neonatal cardiac development.

Songwei Wu, Ph.D.
Regulation of lung endothelial calcium entry.

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