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Welcome

The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology currently consists of twenty primary faculty members with varied and scientifically diverse research interests in neuropharmacology, molecular toxicology, cancer biology and pharmacology, and chemical biology. Departmental faculty members currently serve in directorship roles in the Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics (CAST), the NIEHS Center in Environmental Toxicology, the Cancer Center, and the Chemical Biology Program. Read more of the Chair's welcome message >>


Lawrence Sowers, PhD

Pharmacology and Toxicology by the Numbers

Nationally Ranked Basic Science Department

27,000+ Citations

20 Full time Faculty and 22 associate members

Graduate Highlight Explore diverse research themes to advance our basic understanding of cancer biology, environmental toxicology, and drug abuse.

Master’s Programs

36 Credit Hour program in Pharmacology and Toxicology

PhD Programs

Designed to equip leaders to ask, test, and answer fundamental questions about disease and therapeutics. 

MD/PhD

Training Physician scientist since 1987 to advance the field of medicine. 

Recent Publications

Enhanced motivated behavior mediated by pharmacological targeting of the FGF14/Nav1.6 complex in nucleus accumbens neurons

Dvorak, N. M., Wadsworth, P. A., Aquino-Miranda, G., Wang, P., Engelke, D. S., Zhou, J., Nguyen, N., Singh, A. K., Aceto, G., Haghighijoo, Z., Smith, I. I., Goode, N., Zhou, M., Avchalumov, Y., Troendle, E. P., Tapia, C., Chen, H., Powell, R. T., Baumgartner, T. J. & Singh, J. & 18 others, Koff, L., Di Re, J., Wadsworth, A. E., Marosi, M., Azar, M. R., Elias, K., Lehmann, P., Mármol Contreras, Y. M., Shah, P., Gutierrez, H., Green, T. A., Ulmschneider, M. B., D’Ascenzo, M., Stephan, C., Cui, G., Do Monte, F. H., Zhou, J. & Laezza, F., Dec 2025, In: Nature communications. 16, 1, 110.

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Chemical Research in Toxicology highlights Baljinnyam et al.

Mar 16, 2023, 11:22 AM by User Not Found

Highlights From Chemical Research in Toxicology

The American Chemical Society's Chemical Research in Toxicology highlighted Dr. Sowers's laboratory as a recent highly-accessed article published.

Characterization of a Novel Thermostable DNA Lyase Used To Prepare DNA for Next-Generation Sequencing

Tuvshintugs Baljinnyam, James W. Conrad, Mark L. Sowers, Bruce Chang-Gu, Jason L. Herring, Linda C. Hackfeld, Kangling Zhang, and Lawrence C. Sowers

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.2c00172

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