Department of Pharmacodynamics

The department of pharmacodynamics is highly integrative and collaborative, spanning molecular, cellular, and systems pharmacology and physiology. Faculty study physiological and pharmacological mechanisms underlying stress, anxiety, drug abuse, pain, neuroinflammation, cardiovascular function, metabolic diseases, and cancer. These researchers are successful in securing millions of dollars in grant funding each year from the NIH, Department of Defense, and the American Heart Association. In addition, the department offers a pharmaceutical sciences doctoral degree program that allows aspiring scientists to train under the direction of pharmacodynamics faculty and their collaborators across the University of Florida health science campus.