College of Pharmacy Research
University of Houston College of Pharmacy professors have received national recognition for their research and service. Recent faculty publications have appeared in such journals as Nature and Science, as well as major pharmacological, pharmaceutical and physiological journals.
College faculty research and program initiatives include cardiovascular studies, transdermal drug delivery, neuropharmacology, signal transduction mechanisms, aging and exercise, infectious disease protocols, and patient counseling and compliance.
Faculty members have also collaborated with the Baylor College of Medicine on a project investigating methods of gene therapy and with the University of Texas M.D Anderson Cancer Center on a project investigating the molecular and cellular mechanism of anticancer drug action and infectious disease research.
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UH College of Pharmacy Professor and two-time alumnus Richard A. Bond, Ph.D. ('88), BS ('83), has been awarded a U.S. Patent for the use of nadolol - a beta2-adrenoreceptor inverse agonist (aka beta blocker)... >>more
UHCOP Professor Rajender R. Aparasu, Ph.D., M.Pharm., has received a one-year, $98,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) to evaluate the use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the elderly... >>more
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