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WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY & REGENERATIVE MEDICINE 

Professor and Interim Head

Dept of Pharmacology

It is a matter of pride and pleasure to introduce you to the Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago. We use state-of-the-art approaches to look into a single cell which can be a stem cell or mature cells such as platelets, endothelial cells, and immune cells. Here our aim is to decipher how changes in acute signaling within a cell affect its communication with neighboring cells, gene transcription, translation, and the functions of tissues such as the lung and heart. Along these lines, the Department has made tremendous advancements toward developing therapeutic inventions hoping to cure life-threatening lung and heart diseases.

 

The Department has consistently ranked among the top program in the nation in NIH Funding. Currently, the Department ranks 9th in the country in funding within the category of Pharmacology and Pharmacy. Our success is because of fantastic faculty, who partner with junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students with a mission to expand their scientific curiosity and generate top-notch scientists suited to pursue a career in academics or industry.

 

I hope you will enjoy our website and plan to be a part of our proud family!! We, of course, look forward to your suggestions and comments.

FACULTY/TRAINEE/STAFF SEARCHES

NIH T32 Pre and Post Doc Trainee

Interested candidates can apply HERE.

Graduate Students Rotations 

Interested candidates can contact Dr. Dolly Mehta to discuss rotation projects  HERE.

FACULTY RESEARCH AREAS

VASCULAR

BIOLOGY

LUNG BIOLOGY & PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

INFLAMMATION SIGNALING

MECHANISMS

CELL RECEPTORS

& SIGNALING

STEM CELL BIOLOGY

& REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

MECHANISMS OF THROMBOSIS & PLATELET SIGNALING

The Department of Pharmacology & Regenrative Medicine  has numerous fully funded graduate student and postdoctoral fellow positions available in the areas of stem cell biology & regenerative medicine, cell signaling, vascular biology, lung biology, inflammation signaling, and thrombosis & platelet signaling. Our department consistently ranks among the top departments nationwide in NIH funding, and frequently publishes in top-tier journals such as Nature Communications, PNAS, Immunity, Cancer Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Journal of Cell Biology, among others. Trainees routinely transition to faculty positions or research-intensive careers in the biopharmaceutical industry after completing their training in our department.

 

The Department also leads the NIH T32 Training Program in Lung Biology and Pathobiology, which provides funding for 6 predoctoral and 6 postdoctoral fellows per year. Additionally, departmental faculty are mentors on 6 other university training grants, offering a plethora of funding opportunities. Both predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in the Department are consistently successful in receiving competitive individual external funding from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, Chicago Biomedical Consortium, and Parker B Francis Foundation.

GIVING

Your generous donation to the Department of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine will directly supplement the mission of our faculty and students studying Vascular and Lung Biology, Inflamation Signaling and Stem Cell Biology. To donate to the department, please click the link below:

 

Select Departmental Innovation Fund

 

Thank you for supporting the Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine Innovation Fund. Gift transactions are confidential and secure. Your gift to Illinois Medicine will be processed and receipted by our fundraising partner, the University of Illinois Foundation.

UPCOMING EVENTS


Wednesday, November 15th, 2023

Visiting Professor Seminar 

Claudia V Jakubzick, PhD

1020 COMRB - 12 PM


Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023

Visiting Professor Seminar 

Salva Epelman, MD, PhD

1020 COMRB - 12 PM


Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Dean's Distinguished Lecture

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith

Lecture 2-3 PM; Reception 3-4:30 PM


Wednesday, November 29th, 2023

Visiting Professor Seminar 

Susan R. Schwab, PhD

1020 COMRB - 12 PM


Monday, April 8, 2024

Dean's Distinguished Lecture

Dr. Charles Rice

Lecture 2-3 PM; Reception 3-4:30 PM

RESEARCH AWARDS


  UIC's 2022 Distinguished Professor

Yulia Komarova

 UIC faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in their respective fields of expertise (Basic Life Sciences)


  Allen Distinguished Investigator Award

Gary Mo

Precision live single cell nano-surgery platform for revealing proteome dynamics


  NSF Career Award

 Jae-Won Shin

Engineering instructive niches to precisely guide single stem cells



 Solbert Permutt Trailblazer Award in Pulmonary Physiology and Medicine 

Asrar Malik 

Professor with recognized and distinguished achievement as a clinical investigator, translational scientist and clinician-educator in the field of pulmonary physiology or pulmonary medicine.


  UIC's 2021 Distinguished Professor

Xiaoping Du 

In recognition of significant impact in the field through scholarship, creativity, and leadership.


RECENT FUNDING


MPI R01

Asrar Malik and Yulia Komarova

Programming of PMN host-defense function during transendothelial migration


New R01

Sang Ging Ong

Systems Pharmacology Model of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction


New R01

Dolly Mehta

Targeting mechanisms activating ion-channel for preventing acute lung injury


New R01

Jae-Won Shin

Therapeutic nanoscale matrimeres


PPG

Dolly Mehta, Asrar B. Malik, Jalees Rehman, Konstantinos Chronis, Gary Mo, Yoshikazu Tsukasaki

The Lung Endothelium as an Instructive Niche for the Innate Immune System during
Vascular Injury


New R01

Soroush Tahmasebi

Translational regulation of tissue resident macrophages by GCN2


New R01

Sandra Pinho

Mechanisms of hematopoietic stem cell engraftment


NIH R35(MIRA)

 Gary CH Mo

Pyroptosis is a Trial-by-Fire Program


NIH R35(MIRA)

Andrei V Karginov

Regulation of endothelial cell invasion, migration and cell junction plasticity


  PPG 

 Malik, Mehta, Rehman, Karginov, Mo, Dudek

Macrophage Plasticity in Inflammatory Lung Injury


New R01 

Kim Kiwook  

Role of membrane-associated macrophages in health and inflammation.


DoD

Yulia Komarova

COVID19 Novel Pharmacological interventions for ARDS of COVID-19 patients: Investigational new drug-enabling studies.