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Faculty
Faculty
The College of Pharmacy faculty are truly outstanding, providing excellent teaching and learning
opportunities to students in both large lectures and small group and clinical settings. They are engaged
in exciting scholarship and state-of-the-art research in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences. Our
faculty and staff serve the University and profession at regional and national levels and are involved in
stimulating outreach and engagement activities. The high quality of our faculty is reflected in this
impressive statistic: two-thirds of our pharmacy senior faculty have been honored by their peers and
elected as Fellows of scientific organizations or professional pharmacy organizations.
The total number of tenure-track faculty, regular clinical faculty, and instructional staff in Autumn
2005 was 61. Recent faculty additions are listed here and a complete list of the faculty by Division is
provided at the end of this section.
New Faculty
The College recruited six new faculty to our ranks, bringing the total number of tenure-track faculty,
regular clinical faculty, and instructional staff to 61.
Pictured below, from left to right:
Dr. Keli Hu, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology. Dr. Hu studies the role of regulated ion channel
function and trafficking in cellular protection against ischemia and/or apoptosis. Her current work
focuses on the molecular signaling mechanisms that cause ATP-regulated potassium channels to
accumulate in mitochondria following exposure of heart cells to brief periods of diminished oxygen.
Dr. Stuart Beatty, Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Administration. Dr. Beatty
is teaching, coordinating case conferences in the pathophysiology and therapeutics courses, and
practicing at a general medicine clinic at OSU Medical Center.
Dr. Esperanza Carcache de-Blanco, Assistant Professor, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy,
and Pharmacy Practice and Administration. Dr. Carcache de-Blanco is involved in research to
elucidate the mechanism of action of constituents derived from plants using different bioassays.
Dr. Chenglong Li, Assistant Professor, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy. Dr. Li specializes
in structure-based/computer-aided drug design to design drugs for cancer and Type II diabetes. He
utilizes X-ray crystallography to determine the three dimensional structures of biologically
important proteins/DNAs/RNAs.
Dr. Wenqing Gao, Assistant Research Professor, Pharmaceutics. Dr. Gao's research interests
include structural biology and molecular pharmacology of selective nuclear receptor modulators,
and the expression regulation of drug metabolizing enzymes by nuclear receptors.
Dr. Raj Balkrishnan, Merrell Dow
Professor, Pharmacy Practice and
Administration. Dr. Balkrishnan’s
research includes diverse topics
related to economic evaluation of
pharmaceuticals, risk adjustment of
health outcomes, quality of primary
care, medication and patient safety,
applied statistical methodology in health
services evaluation, and patient-centered
outcomes evaluation (specifically focused on
patient satisfaction, and medication
adherence behavior).
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