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Program
  Course List
 
  A list of courses required for a degree in Pharmacology and Pharmacology electives
  Seminar Series
 
  As part of our graduate program, we offer a seminar series that runs from September through June.
  Alberto DiMascio Memorial Lecture
 
  Each spring, the current President of the ACNP is invited by DPET and the Department of Psychiatry to visit and give a presentation on their recent research.
  The Sterling Visiting Professorship  
  The Sterling Drug Company has established a Visiting Professorship in Pharmacology at Tufts University in honor and memory of Dr. Louis Lasagna, Professor of Pharmacology and Dean of the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.
  Summer Internships  
  We offer opportunities for summer internships for medical students who wish to pursue scientific research.
     
 
 
  Seminar Series  
(All Wednesday Seminars are held in the Sackler Building, 145 Harrison Ave., Room 304D unless otherwise noted)
   

Academic year 2007-2008

March 26, 2008 Dr.Mark Osborne, Ph.D., Director, Development Altus Phamaceuticals, Cambridge, MA


March 12, 2008

Dr.Kenneth Kaitin, Ph.D., Director, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development,Tufts University.
Research Associate Professor,School of Medicine, Tufts University.

 

February, 20, 2008 Dr.John L. Neumeyer, Ph.D., Matthews Distinguished Professor of Medical Chemistry [Emeritus], McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
October 24, 2007 Dr. Fatemeh Akhlagi,Pharm.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor in Pharmacokinetics,Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences- University of Rhode Island

 

Academic year 2006-2007

   
April 11, 2007 Dr. Cheryl Garganta, Director, Metabolic Laboratory at Tufts-New England Medical Center
March 28, 2007 Dr.Mircea Ivan, Investigator and Assistant Professor of Medicine
Molecular Oncology Research Institute
Tufts University School of Medicine
March 21, 2007 Dr. Laura Liscum, Professor and Program Director, Department of Physiology Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University
March 14, 2007 Dr.Jonathan M. Davis, Chief of Newborn Medicine
Associate Director Clinical Research Center
Tufts-New England Medical Center
February 28, 2007 Dr. Matthew R. Ricci,Vice-President, Science Director
Research Diets, Inc.
   
December 6, 2006

Dr. Helen W.Boucher.
Director Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases-Tufts New England Medical Center.

 

October 4, 2006

Dr.Mosha Finel
Recent insights into structure and function of UGT's

   

Academic year 2005-2006

May 10, 2006 Dr. Brian J. G. Pereira
Sackler 304D
May 3, 2006

Regulation of Smooth Muscle Cell Function by CCN5, a New Matricellular Protein
Dr. John Castellot
Sackler 304D

April 19, 2006

Faculty Presentation of Current Activity at Dr. Shirihai's Lab
The Study of Mitochondrial Metabolism in Beta cells and Bone Marrow Cells:

Tracking Single Mitochondria through their Romantic Subcellular Adventures - Orian Shirihai, M.D. Ph.D.

The Live Cell Array - a Honeycomb of Living Cells - Israel Biran, Ph.D.

WETSEM Technology: Big on Obesity and the Tiny Little Lipid Droplets - Ory Zik, Ph.D.

3:45-5
Sackler 304D

April 6, 2006 (note: THURSDAY) Neurobehavioral mechanisms of compulsive drug seeking
Dr. Louk Vanderschuren
3:45-5
Sackler 829D
March 22, 2006

Role of mast cells in inflammatory diseases and the effect of acute stress
Drs. Theoharides, Kempuraj, and Tagen
3:45-5
Sackler 304D

March 8, 2006

Faculty Presentation, Drs. Pothos, Porter and Saveriades
3:45-5
Sackler 304D

January 11, 2006

Stefan McDonough, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Department of Neuroscience, Amgen Inc.
3:45-5
Sackler 304D

November 30, 2005

Kyongbum Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Tufts University, Medford, MA
"Metabolic Engineering of Tissue Function"
3:45-5
Sackler 314 D

October 5, 2005

Maria Panchenko, Ph.D.
"von Hippel Lindau Protein Partner Jade-1 is a Transcription Factor Associated with Histone Acetyl Transferase Activity"

3:45-4:45
Sackler 304 D

   

Academic year 2004-2005

September 15, 2004 Ella Nikulina, Ph.D.
   
November 10, 2004 Ira Wilson, M.D., M.Sc.
   
November 17, 2004 Maribel Rios, Ph.D.
   
January 12, 2005 Harry Paul Selker, M.D., M.S.P.H.
   
January 19, 2005 Maria Morabito, Ph.D.
   
February 2, 2005 J. Max Goodson, Ph.D., D.D.S.
   
March 16, 2005 Alex Hoos, M.D., Ph.D.
   
April 27, 2005 Carlos Sonnenschein, M.D.  
   
May 25, 2005 Lee M. Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D.

Academic year 2003-2004

October 8, 2003 Eric Frank, Ph.D.
   
October 29, 2003 Jerome E. Groopman, M.D., Sterling Lecture*
   
November 12, 2003 David J. Waxman, Ph.D.
   
November 19, 2003 Jim Schwob, M.D., Ph.D.
   
January 21, 2004

Gail Sonenshein, Ph.D.

   
March 10, 2004 David Stresser, B.D.Biosciences Discovery Labware, Woburn, MA
   
March 17, 2004 Andrew Winokur, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
   
April 7, 2004 Kenneth L.Kaitin, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.
   
April 14, 2004 Richard Wurtman, Cecil H Green, Distinguished Professor, Director of MIT Clinical Research Center, MIT, MA
   
May 26, 2004 Vivian Hook, Ph.D, Prof. Buck Institute and Dept of Medicine and Neurosciences, University of California, Sad Diego, CA
   
Date (TBA) Philip Askenase, Ph.D.