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.
Andrew Behrmann
- 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 PhD
Bryn Chynoweth
- Undergraduate School: Columbia College
- Research Interests: Left ventricular function and dilated cardiomyopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Program: MPP MS
Olufunke (Funke) Falayi
- 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
Matthew Hayden
- Undergraduate School: Simpson College, Indianola, IA
- Graduate School: Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA, MS in Biomedical Sciences
- Research Interests: Cardiac physiology, aging, autophagy, TRPV4 channels, intracellular calcium signaling
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Olubodun Lateef
- Undergraduate School: Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo, Nigeria BS in Medical Physiology
- Graduate School: Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland; MA in Biotechnology
- Research Interests: Vascular physiology; cardiovascular physiology
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Peter Mallon
- Undergraduate School: University of Missouri
- Research Interests: Cardiac physiology, exercise physiology, toxicology
- Program: MPP MS
Lutfun Nahar
- Undergraduate School: Dhaka National Medical College, Bangladesh
- Graduate School: University of Illinois Springfield; University of Missouri-Columbia
- Research Interests: Molecular level of cardiac dysfunction: aneurysm, atherosclerosis, stroke, vascular changes in hypertension and diabetes, and rational drug design for these diseases
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Safa
- Undergraduate School: University of St. Andrews, UK
- Continuing Education: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK; BS (Hons) Immunology and Pharmacology
- Graduate School: University of Missouri-Columbia, MS in Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Arooj Shahid
- Undergraduate School: Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; BS in Pharmacy
- Graduate School: University of Missouri-Columbia, MS in Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
- Research Interests: Cardiac cell physiology
- Program: Translational Bioscience PhD
Varsha Srinivasan
- Undergraduate School: SASTRA University, India
- Graduate School: Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India
- Research Interests: Cancer therapy
- Program: MPP PhD
Ruimei Zhou
- Undergraduate School: Southern Medical University, Guangzhou,Guangdong, China; BS in Basic Medicine
- Research Interests: Cardiovascular physiology, angiogenesis
- Program: MPP PhD
