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Fast Facts – UNC Department of Pharmacology

A little history: Originally founded by William MacNider in 1906 as the Laboratory of Pharmacology, UNC boasts one of the ten original departments of pharmacology in the United States.  The department admitted its first doctoral candidates in 1968 and first conferred its PhDs in 1971 to Jo Ann Nuite, Ahmed Mahgoub, and James Stephen Kennedy.

People

    • 78 faculty members
    • 27 primary tenure-track appointees
    • 21 tenure-track joint appointees
    • 10 adjunct faculty at other institutions
    • 20 research professors
    • 78 graduate students and 45 postdoctoral scientists

Funding and Productivity

  • Consistently ranks in the top tier of NIH funding in its field,  currently ranking #5 in the nation
  • Our Pharmacology program and publications also consistently ranks in the top tier: Nationally we rank #4, #5, #6, and #12  & Globally we rank #10, #15, and #21

Space

  • Located on the 4th Floor of the Genetic Medicine Building, completed 2008

Research strengths

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

Supported facilities