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Research Faculty

Browse a list of research faculty members in Northwestern University's Department of Pharmacology and visit their profiles to learn more about their research projects.

Belmadani, Abdelhak

Belmadani, Abdelhak

Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology

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My work seeks to understand how chemokines and their receptors regulate aspects of adult and embryonic neurogenesis. Translational aspects of this research concern the hope that neural stem cells can ... [more]

Caronia-Brown, Giuliana

Caronia-Brown, Giuliana

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

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Role of microRNAs in CNS and PNS: In the CNS, we focus on the role of miRNA in hippocampus development by regulating Wnt/BMP pathways, while in the PNS, we investigate their role in dopamine neurons d... [more]

Dashzeveg, Nurmaa

Dashzeveg, Nurmaa

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

El-Shennawy, Lamiaa

El-Shennawy, Lamiaa

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Fonoudi, Hananeh

Fonoudi, Hananeh

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Jia, Yuzhi

Jia, Yuzhi

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

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My research work is focused on studying the mechanisms that regulate the transcriptional activities of nuclear receptors. Nuclear receptors constitute a large superfamily of transcription fac... [more]

Onay, Tuncer

Onay, Tuncer

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Pesce, Lorenzo

Pesce, Lorenzo

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Roy, Saktimayee

Roy, Saktimayee

Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Schiltz, Gary

Schiltz, Gary

Research Professor of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Pharmacology