Research in the Department is broad, and includes programs focused on cell and gene regulation, hormone action and biogenesis, caveolae, protein and phosphoinositide kinases and phosphatases, glycoproteins and lectins, drug resistance and the development of activators, inhibitors and drugs.
Target diseases studied in Molecular Pharmacology include: cancer, cardiac and thyroid pathogenesis, diabetes and muscular dystrophy. Research programs in the department train Ph.D. students for independent research careers as well as other options.