Fast Facts - UNC Department of Pharmacology

People

• 50 faculty members
• 23 primary tenure-track appointees
• 23 tenure-track joint appointees
• 4 adjunct faculty at other institutions
• 19 research assistant or associate professors
• 39 graduate students and 35 postdoctoral scientists

Funding and Productivity

• 1st in NIH funding of 100 pharmacology departments (2005)
• 1st in total publications in pharmacology (1996 – 2000)

Space

• Located on the 4th Floor of the new Genetic Medicine Building
• Wireless internet access is available throughout our space in the Genetic Medicine Building

Research strengths

• Signal transduction
• Cancer and antibiotic pharmacology
• Neuropharmacology
• Experimental therapeutics
• Network and pathway analysis and modeling

Supported facilities

• Core Facilities