Pharmacology & Physiology
Researchers at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science received $1.6 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study a heart-brain connection that could help the nearly 23 million people suffering from heart failure…
Pedro A. Jose, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and pharmacology and physiology, was elected as chair of the Hypertension and Microcirculation Study Section at the National Institutes of Health.
Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute and professor of pharmacology and physiology, was published in JAMA Psychiatry about a new method to map and track the function of brain circuits affected by autism spectrum disorder in boys using brain…
Paul Marvar, MS, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology, received a $750K grant from the American Heart Association to study a link between stress and anxiety-related mental health disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, and increased development of cardiovascular…
Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and physiology, was featured in News-Medical for his leadership of a six million dollar program project grant to research pediatric dysphagia - chronic difficulties with feeding and swallowing in children.
An interdisciplinary group of researchers from the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Children’s National Health System has been awarded a program project grant for $6.2 million from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to solve pediatric…
On Sept. 24-25, Linda Kusner, Ph.D., assistant research professor of pharmacology and physiology, organized a meeting of myasthenia gravis experts from across the globe at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience and professor of pharmacology and physiology, received a $739K grant from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative to study the link between autism and disrupted brain development.
Chiara Manzini, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology, was published in Cell Reports for her research finding that autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability often occur together and may even share similar genetic causes.
Linda Kusner, Ph.D., assistant research professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Henry Kaminski, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurology, were featured in Medical News Today for their recently published research in PLOS ONE, finding that autoimmune disorders share…