Core Faculty
View faculty in our department holding full-time appointments as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor at Northwestern University. Learn more about their work and connect with affiliated centers and lab sites via the information below. Or, see our A-Z faculty profile directory for the full department list.
Swanson, Geoffrey T
Professor of Pharmacology and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
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My research focuses predominantly on understanding physiological processes mediated by glutamate receptors, which are signaling proteins that respond to glutamate, the predominant excitatory neurotran... [more]
Watterson, Daniel Martin
Professor of Pharmacology
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The elucidation of eukaryotic signal transduction pathways, the study of signal transduction pathway perturbation in disease or injury, and the utilization of this knowledgebase for rational drug disc... [more]
Ziarek, Joshua J
Associate Professor of Pharmacology