2007 Annual Report - College of Pharmacy - The Ohio State University

Division of Pharmacology
Wallace, Lane J.
Professor and Chair
Elton, Terry S.
Professor
Hoyt, Dale G.
Associate Professor
Hoyt, Kari R.
Assistant Professor
Hu, Keli
Assistant Professor
Keshvara, Lakhu M.
Assistant Professor
McKay, Dennis B.
Professor
Young, Anthony P.
Professor
Burkman, Allan
Feller, Dennis
Gerald, Michael
Patil, Popat N.
Uretsky, Norman J.
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Pharmacology includes:
❖ the study of drug effects in biological systems,
❖ the determination of the mechanisms by which drugs produce their effects,
optimization of therapeutic regimens.
An understanding of the nature of drug action and the vulnerability of living
systems to alterations by chemicals serves as the basis on which new therapeutic
agents are developed and toxic consequences of chemical exposure are alleviated.
Since drugs are chemical substances that modify biological or physiological
processes, pharmacology involves many diverse and
inter-related scientific disciplines. These include
chemistry, biochemistry, pathophysiology, cellular
and molecular biology, and others.
Pharmacology is a diverse and interdisciplinary
field that ranges from the design and evaluation of
drug effects at the cellular and subcellular levels
(biochemical and molecular pharmacology) to the
study of drug effects in intact animal models and in
humans (experimental and clinical pharmacology).
Lane Wallace
Chair
Kari Hoyt’s work in pathology
while at a hospital lab in
Pittsburgh sparked an interest in
the development of drugs and
the treatment of disease. While
at the University of Pittsburgh,
Kari studied why cells die in
stroke victims and how to use
that information to find drugs to
arrest that process.
Kari joined OSU in 2000 and is
currently studying chronic
neuro-degenerative diseases
(Parkinson’s and Huntington’s
diseases). She is developing
therapies that will protect
people from acquiring these
diseases in the future.
Kari finds OSU a supportive
environment for her scientific
research. She and her students
(graduate and undergraduate)
carry on their research in a wellequipped
laboratory and have
easy access to other
researchers on campus working
in similar areas.
Dr. Hoyt was promoted this
year to Associate Professor of
Pharmacy.
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