Meet our current Medical Pharmacology & Physiology trainees! Our students come from all parts of the world to study with our great faculty mentors. Some are part of our MPP Masters program, others come to us through the new Translational Bioscience program, where they are encouraged to find the right fit for their PhD following rotations in labs across many disciplines.
MPP Graduate Students
Olalekan "Sher" Adebiyi
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
- Degree: MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery)
- Research Interests: Cardiovascular and renal physiology with applications in surgical and critical care medicine; Pathophysiology of heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and cardiorenal syndromes; Pharmacologic and experimental strategies to optimize vascular and organ function
- Program: MPP MS
Andrew Behrmann
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Southeast Missouri State University
- Graduate School: University of Missouri School of Medicine
- Research Interests: Right ventricular physiology and arrhythmias in different models of pulmonary hypertension as well as surgical outcomes research.
- Program: Translational Bioscience MD-PhD
Deepanwita Chakraborty
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Brac University
- Research Interests: Host-Pathogen interactions, innate immunity, complex gut microbiome
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Abigail Daniels
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: The University of the Western Cape
- Research Interests: Cellular and molecular neuroscience, understanding neurodegenerative disorders, and drug development to alleviate neurodegenerative disorders.
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Olufunke "Funke" Falayi
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Graduate School: University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
- Research Interests: Microvascular dysfunction in acute kidney injury
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Melika Hasanti
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Azarbaijan University
- Research Interests: Lung cancer, Kidney cancer, Pancreatic cancer
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Matthew Hayden
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Simpson College, Iowa
- Graduate Studies: Des Moines University; MS Physiology/Pharmacology
- Research Interests: Role of the transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) ion channel in the development of cardiac dysfunction
- Program: Translational Bioscience MD-PhD
Hyellavala Joseph
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: University of Maiduguri, Nigeria
- Graduate Studies: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree from the University of Maiduguri, followed by a master's degree in pharmacology
- Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of renal and vascular diseases and their translation into novel therapeutic strategies.
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Olubodun Lateef
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso
- Research Interests: Understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie the impact of stretch on cytoskeletal alterations in vascular smooth muscle, ultimately contributing to vascular stiffening and remodeling in the context of diabetes and hypertension.
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Sakib Mahmud
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Khulna University, BS
- Graduate School: Emporia State University, MS.
- Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, Viral infections, innate immunity.
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Peter Mallon
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: University of Missouri-Columbia
- Research Interests: Renal Cell Carcinoma, Lung Cancer, Toxicology
- Program: Medical Pharmacology & Physiology MS
Samuel Martin
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: University of Missouri; BS Biological Sciences
- Research Interests: Integrative and translational pathophysiology of late stage cardiovascular (heart failure) and renal (chronic kidney disease) diseases via clinical approaches to physiology research.
- Program: Medical Pharmacology & Physiology MS
Dhanvika Mopure
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (Tirupati, India)
- Research Interests: Regenerative medicine and reproductive biology
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Lutfun Nahar
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Dhaka National Medical College
- Research Interests: Cardiovascular changes in chronic disease.
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Safa
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
- Research Interests: Reproductive Biology
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Arooj Shahid
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Quaid-i-Azam University
- Research Interests: Cardiovascular physiology, calcium handling, pulmonary hypertension, and cardiac failure
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Gauge Shaw
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School: Harding University; BS Cognitive Neuroscience and Preprofessional Health Sciences
- Research Interests: Pathogenesis and novel therapeutic development for neuropsychiatric illness and cancer; application of bioinformatics for biomarker discovery and disease characterization
- Program: Medical Pharmacology & Physiology MS
Ruimei Zhou
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology Graduate Student
- Undergraduate School:
- Research Interests:
- Program: Medical Pharmacology & Physiology PhD
