Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty

Mohammad A.M. Ali, Assistant Professor

BS, MS, Alexandria University, Egypt; PhD, University of Alberta, Canada

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program

Specialty: Cancer cell biology, epigenetic, DNA damage repair , cardiovascular pharmacology, cancer metastasis after epigenetics

Aaron Beedle, Associate Professor

BSc, Queen's University, Canada; PhD, University of Calgary, Canada

Affiliated: Center of Biomanufacturing for Regenerative Medicine (CBRM); Biochemistry Program

Specialty: Study of glycosylation-deficient muscular dystrophy, using cell and animal models, to understand disease mechanisms and explore new therapies

Tracy Brooks, Associate Professor

BS, University of Rochester; PhD, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program; Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: Characterizing and targeting non-canonical DNA structures for transcriptional control in the development of novel anti-cancer and neuroprotective therapeutics

Tony D. Davis, Assistant Professor

BS, Xavier University of Louisiana; PhD, Cornell University

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program

Specialty: Natural products biosynthesis; antibiotics; structure-based drug-design; organic chemistry; biological chemistry; medicinal chemistry

Katie Edwards, Assistant Professor

BS, Clarkson University; MS, PhD, Cornell University

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program; Center for Research in Advanced Sensing Technologies & Environmental Sustainability (CREATES)

Specialty: Bioanalytical technique and biosensor development; liposome formulation and vitamin deficiency

Yuan Fang, Assisstant Professor

PhD, 绿帽社

Specialty: Biostatistics, bioinformatics, statistical learning/computing,longitudinal data analysis, multi-omics data analysis 

Yetrib Hathout, Professor

BS, MS, PhD, University of Burgundy, France

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program; Center of Biomanufacturing for Regenerative Medicine (CBRM); Tick-borne Diseases Research Center

Specialty: Bio-analytical mass spectrometry and proteomic studies of human diseases

SUNY Empire Innovation Scholar

Eric Hoffman, Professor

BA, Gettysburg College; PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program; Center of Biomanufacturing for Regenerative Medicine (CBRM); Tick-borne Diseases Research Center

Specialty: Human genetics; drug development

SUNY Empire Innovation Scholar

Kuo-Ching Mei, Assistant Professor

PhD, University of London, UK

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program; Integrative Neuroscience Program; Biology Program

Specialty: Drug Delivery, Gene Delivery, Vaccine Delivery, Pharmacoengineering, BioEngineering, Immuno-Engineering, Molecular Pharmaceutics, Cancer, Auto-immune, NanoMedicine

Melissa Morales, Assistant Professor

BA, SUNY Cortland; MA, PhD, 绿帽社 (SUNY)

Affiliated: Integrative Neuroscience Program

Specialty: Neuromuscular diseases; autoimmune diseases; behavioral and cellular neuroscience

Kanneboyina Nagaraju, Dean and Professor

DVM, College of Veterinary Sciences, APAU, India; MVSc, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India; PhD, SGPGI of Medical Sciences, India

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program; Center of Biomanufacturing for Regenerative Medicine (CBRM); Integrative Neuroscience Program; Tick-borne Diseases Research Center

Specialty: Immunology; neuromuscular diseases; autoimmune diseases; drug development

SUNY Empire Innovation Scholar

Gail B. Rattinger, Professor

AB, Occidental College; PhD, University of Illinois; PharmD, University of California at San Francisco

Specialty: Pharmacoepidemiology and cost outcomes focused on Alzheimer鈥檚 disease; medication use in geriatric populations

L. Nathan Tumey, Associate Professor

BS, King College; PhD, Duke University

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program; Center of Biomanufacturing for Regenerative Medicine (CBRM)

Specialty: Medicinal chemistry; targeted drug delivery; antibody drug conjugates; autoimmune diseases

Tao Zhang, Assistant Professor

BS, Zhejiang University; MPhil, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; PhD, University of Michigan

Affiliated: Biochemistry Program

Specialty: Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/Pd) modeling, physiological based pharmacokinetic modeling and simulation (PBPK) modeling, drug-drug interaction (DDI), drug safety during breastfeeding, gastrointestinal inflammation and colorectal cancer