| Faculty | Research Interests |
| Richard W. Browne, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences; Epidemiology and Environmental Health | Clinical biochemistry of oxidative stress (OS) in human health and disease. |
| James B. Knaak, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology | |
| Paul J. Kostyniak, PhD Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Epidemiology and Environmental Health; Director, Toxicology Research Center | Toxicology of heavy metals, chlorinated organics and antidote development. |
| Marilyn E. Morris, PhD Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences | Drug transport and pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) of drugs. |
| James R. Olson, PhD UB Distinguished Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology; Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Director, Division of Environmental Health Sciences; Associate Director, Toxicology Research Center | Assessing the health risks and biomarkers of exposure, effect and susceptibility to organophosphate (OP) pesticides and persistent halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons. |
| Richard A. Rabin, PhD Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology | Neurotoxic, hepatotoxic interactions between alcohol use/abuse and exposure to chemicals used in industry, agriculture; various molecular, biochemical, cellular, behavioral techniques used in combination with model systems, including cells in culture and zebrafish, to assess interaction and determine underlying mechanisms for toxicity. |
| Xuefeng Ren, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Director, MPH Environmental Health Concentration Epidemiology and Environmental Health | Environmental mutagens and carcinogens, mechanism of carcinogenesis, genetic/epigenetic biomarkers of environment toxicants, tumor suppressor genes, and exposure biology and exposome. |
| Jerome A. Roth, PhD Professor Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology | Mechanism of action of manganese in producing neuronal cell death, resulting in a Parkinson-like syndrome. |
| Harish C. Sikka, PhD Research Assistant Professor Epidemiology and Environmental Health | |
| Aiming Yu, PhD Associate Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences | Function of human cytochrome P450 (CYP2D6, CYP3A4) drug-metabolizing enzymes, ATP-binding cassette (ABC) membrane transporters (BCRP/ABCG2, MRP1/ABCC1) in cellular defense against xenobiotic drugs and environmental agents. |
