Research Track Faculty

Research Track Faculty

Research Assistant Professor, Pharmacology

Research Interests: Dr. Cartmell is interested in the discovery of novel bioactive natural products. His research focuses on methods for probing microbial dark matter in attempts to gain access to the missing 99% of microbes unable to be cultivated under standard laboratory conditions. He is also interested in developing microfluidic techniques for high-throughput screening of bioactive natural products as well as the activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters.

Research Associate Professor, Cancer Biology and Pharmacology

Research Interests: Etiology of UV-induced non-melanoma skin cancer UV and ROS-induced stress signaling in the cell Chemoprevention of skin cancer TLR4 and skin cancer

Assistant Research Professor, Pharmacology

Assistant Research Professor, Pharmacology

Assistant Research Professor, Pharmacology

Research Interests: Inflammatory pain induced alterations in the blood-brain barrier including brain uptake of opioid drugs and paracellular permeability changes due to tight junction modifications. Mechanisms governing intranasal drug delivery to the CNS. Pathophysiological changes affecting intranasal drug delivery to the CNS.

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology; Member of the Graduate Faculty

Associate Professor

Associate Research Professor, Pharmacology; Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry - Med; Associate Professor, Cancer Biology - GIDP; Associate Professor, Neuroscience - GIDP; Assistant Professor, BIO5 Institute; Member of the Graduate Faculty