Faculty Expertise

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The expertise of the School of Pharmacy’s faculty members spans numerous areas from Addiction Medicine to Vaccines and Virology.

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Michelle Guignet

Expertise: Central Nervous System (epilepsy, seizure disorders, neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s), Drug Discovery, Medication adherence, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Translational Research

Email: mguignet@uw.edu

Samuel Arnold

Expertise: Drug Discovery, In vitro to in vivo extrapolationmove -> Physiologically based pharmacokinetic, Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Intestinal Surgery and GI Diseases, Microphysiological organ systems, Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics(PKPD), Pharmacology, Simulation Modeling, Translational Research

Telephone: (206)-221-3441

Email: slarnold@uw.edu

Website: Linkedin

Qingxin Mu

Expertise: Cancer Treatments (Immunotherapy, Oncology), Drug Formulation (targeted drug delivery and extending duration of action), Long-acting therapeutics, Nanomedicine (Nanotechnology and nanomedicine for disease prevention and treatment), Nanoparticle-Biological system interactions, Oncology, Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics(PKPD), Pharmacology, Targeted (drug-combination) therapy

Telephone: 206-685-3012

Email: qmu@uw.edu

Website: LinkedIn

Steve White

Expertise: Central Nervous System (epilepsy, seizure disorders, neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s), Drug Discovery, Mechanisms-of-Drug-Interactions (drug metabolism, drug transport), Medication adherence, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Translational Research

Telephone: (206) 543-3782

Email: hswhite@uw.edu

Joanne Wang

Expertise: Blood-brain and blood-csf barriers, Cancer Treatments (Immunotherapy, Oncology), Central Nervous System (epilepsy, seizure disorders, neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s), Drug Transporters (Drug-Metabolism-Distribution-and-Transport, Membrane-Transporters), Neuroscience, Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics(PKPD), Pharmacology, Pregnancy and Fetal Pharmacology, Toxicology (medication and environmental compounds), Translational Research

Telephone: (206) 616-6561

Email: jowang@uw.edu

Website: PubMed

Mary Hebert

Expertise: Drug Metabolism (cytochrome P450 enzymes), Drug Transporters (Drug-Metabolism-Distribution-and-Transport, Membrane-Transporters), Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics(PKPD), Pharmacology, Pregnancy and Fetal Pharmacology, Transplantation (organs, tissues, and bone marrow)

Telephone: (206) 616-5016

Email: mhebert@uw.edu

Website: OPRU

Melissa Barker-Haliski

Expertise: Central Nervous System (epilepsy, seizure disorders, neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s), Chronic Disease (including: Pharmacotherapy), Drug Discovery, Geriatrics (including: dementia, falls interventions, fractures, aging), Health Policy, Neurodegenerationmove -> Central Nervous System, Neurodevelopmental Diseasemove -> Central Nervous System, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Translational Research

Telephone: (206) 685-1783

Email: mhaliski@uw.edu

Website: https://sites.uw.edu/mhaliski/

William Atkins

Expertise: Analytical Techniques (cell imaging, mass spectrometry), Biotechnology, Drug Metabolism (cytochrome P450 enzymes), Drug Transporters (Drug-Metabolism-Distribution-and-Transport, Membrane-Transporters), Mechanisms-of-Drug-Interactions (drug metabolism, drug transport), Molecular Biophysics, Pharmacology, Protein Dynamics, Structural Biology

Telephone: (206) 685-0379

Email: winky@uw.edu

Website: Atkins Lab