Division News

2023 Division Elections

The 2023 election includes nominees for the ASPET Council (president-elect, secretary/treasurer-elect, and councilor), as well as officers from the Division for Behavioral Pharmacology, Division for Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Division for Drug Discovery and Development, Division for Drug Metabolism and Disposition, Division for Molecular Pharmacology, Division for Pharmacology Education and Division for Toxicology. The election will open on January 10, 2023, and eligible voting members will receive an email with instructions.

Division for Behavioral Pharmacology

Nominee for Chair-Elect

Brian Kangas, PhD

Director, Cognition Biology Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Nominee for Secretary/Treasurer-Elect

Robert Warren Gould, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Division for Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Nominee for Chair-Elect Nominee for Secretary/Treasurer-Elect

Michael Tranter, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease, University of Cincinnati

Boyd Rorabaugh

Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Marshall University School of Pharmacy, Interim Associate Dean of Academic and Curricular Affairs, Marshall University School of Pharmacy

Division for Drug Discovery and Development

Nominee for Chair-Elect

Alicja Urbaniak, MSc, PhD, PhD

Instructor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Nominee for Secretary/Treasurer-Elect

Harshini Neelakantan, PhD

Executive Director, Research and Development, Ridgeline Therapeutics

Division for Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Nominees for Chair-Elect Nominees for Secretary/Treasurer-Elect

Bhagwat Prasad, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University

Kerry Goralski, PhD

Professor, College of Pharmacy (Primary Appointment), Department of Pharmacology (Cross-Appointment) and Department of Pediatrics (Cross-Appointment) Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Klarissa Jackson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Yurong Lai, MD PhD

Executive Director of Drug Metabolism, Gilead Sciences Inc

Division for Molecular Pharmacology

Nominees for Chair-Elect

Adriano Marchese, PhD

Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Michelle Kimple, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of WisconsinMadison; Co-Director, UW Madison Diabetes Research Center Islet Core

Nominees for Secretary/Treasurer-Elect

Daniel G. Isom, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Smita Yadav, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington; Faculty, Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington

Division for Pharmacology Education

Nominees for Chair-Elect

Khalil Eldeeb, MD, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology School of Osteopathic Medicine Campbell University Adjunct Faculty Wake Forest School of Medicine

Michael W. Lee, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College

Nominee for Secretary/Treasurer-Elect

Diptiman Bose, B.Pharm, M.S, M.Ed, PhD, RPh

Associate Professor, Dept of Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Science, Western New England University, Director of Pharm D Distance Learning Pathway, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Western New England University

Division for Toxicology

Nominee for Chair-Elect

Elaine M. Leslie, PhD

Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Canada, Nominee for Secretary/Treasury-Elect

Nominee for Secretary/Treasurer-Elect

Sudin Bhattacharya, PhD

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University