Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics

Faculty Research Interests and Laboratories

Name Research Interests
Location/Phone/E-mail

David H. Bechhofer, Ph.D.

Regulation of bacterial gene expression
Laboratory Web site
Annenberg 19-98
(212) 241-5628
david.bechhofer@mssm.edu

Robert D. Blitzer, Ph.D.

Regulation of translation in long-term potentiation
Laboratory Web site
Icahn Medical Institute 12-52A
(212) 659-1728
robert.blitzer@mssm.edu

Arthur I. Cederbaum, Ph.D.

Ethanol-induced oxidative stress and cytotoxicity
Laboratory Web site

Annenberg 19-10
(212) 241-9352
arthur.cederbaum@mssm.edu

Te-Hua T. Chu, Ph.D.

Genome-wide gene expression analyses on single cells, region-specific gene expression profiling of psychiatric disorders

Annenberg 19-201
(212) 241-3873
tearina.chu@mssm.edu

Lakshmi A. Devi, Ph.D.

Neuropeptides and their receptors, opiate receptor signal transduction and narcotic addiction
Laboratory Web site

Annenberg 19-84
(212) 241-8345
lakshmi.devi@mssm.edu

Maria Diverse-Pierluissi, Ph.D.

Molecular components regulating calcium channel function
Laboratory Web site

Annenberg 19-94
(212) 241-5569
maria.diverse@mssm.edu

Jeanne P. Hirsch, Ph.D.

Signal transduction pathways mediated by heterotrimeric G proteins in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Laboratory Web site

Annenberg 19-04
(212) 241-0224
jeanne.hirsch@mssm.edu

Yasmin L. Hurd, Ph.D.

Opioid neuropeptide, cannabinoid and dopamine neural systems in drug abuse
Laboratory Web site

Annenberg 19-70A
(212) 241-5007
yasmin.hurd@mssm.edu

Ravi Iyengar, Ph.D.

Signal transduction, G protein and effectors, protein-protein interactions and drug design
Laboratory Web site

Icahn Medical Institute 12-70C
(212) 659-1707
ravi.iyengar@mssm.edu

Terry A. Krulwich, Ph.D.

Tetracycline and Na+ transporters; oxidative phosphorylation
Laboratory Web site

Annenberg 19-36
(212) 241-7280
terry.krulwich@mssm.edu

Emmanuel Landau, M.D., Ph.D.

Signaling pathways responsible for synaptic plasticity
Laboratory Web site

Icahn Medical Institute 12-70D
(212) 659-1729
(718) 584-9000 x5177
manny.landau@mssm.edu

Avi Ma'ayan, Ph.D.

Graph theory, data mining and machine learning application to biological networks
Laboratory Web site

Icahn Medical Institute 12-78
(212) 659-1739 avi.maayan@mssm.edu

Shalom Rackovsky, Ph.D.

Protein bioinformatics and computational biology

Annenberg 13-30
(212) 241-4868
shelly@camelot.mssm.edu

Francesco Ramirez, Ph.D.

Connective tissue pathophysiology and genetic control of morphogenesis

Annenberg 19-64A
(212) 241-7237
francesco.ramirez@mssm.edu

Lawrence Sirovich, Ph.D.

Neural modeling, image analysis, and biomedical imaging

Annenberg 20-76
(212) 241-3994
lawrence.sirovich@mssm.edu

Eric Sobie, Ph.D.

Excitation-contraction coupling in heart muscle cells
Laboratory Web site

Icahn Medical Institute 12-75B
(212) 659-1706
eric.sobie@mssm.edu

Sherwin Wilk, Ph.D.

Proteolytic enzyme mechanism and function
Annenberg 19-201A
(212) 659-1711
sherwin.wilk@mssm.edu