General Information

Fast Facts - UNC Department of Pharmacology

People

  • 41 faculty members
  • 23 primary tenure-track appointees
  • 15 tenure-track joint appointees
  • 3 adjunct faculty at other institutions
  • 26 research assistant or associate professors
  • 51 graduate students and 29 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

Research strengths

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

Supported facilities