Meet our faculty

VCU's Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology faculty members are nationally and internationally renowned scholars in the fields of neuroscience, cancer and toxicology. This excellence is reflected in high-quality publications in leading journals and leadership roles in scientific societies.

Mario D. Aceto, Ph.D.
Hamid Akbarali, Ph.D.
Robert L. Balster, Ph.D.
Matthew L. Banks, Ph.D.
Patrick M. Beardsley, Ph.D.
Jill C. Bettinger, Ph.D.
Darlene H. Brunzell, Ph.D.
M. Imad Damaj, Ph.D.
Andrew G. Davies, Ph.D.
William L. Dewey, Ph.D.
Nazira El-Hage, Ph.D.
David A. Gewirtz, Ph.D.
Louis S. Harris, Ph.D.
Kurt F. Hauser, Ph.D.
Edward J.N. Ishac, Ph.D.
Lankupalle Jayanthi, Ph.D.
Ningjun Li, M.D.
Pin-Lan Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Aron H. Lichtman, Ph.D.
Michael F. Miles, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard G. Moran, Ph.D.
S. Stevens Negus, Ph.D.
Katherine L. Nicholson, Ph.D., D.V.M.
Lawrence F. Povirk, Ph.D.
Sammanda Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Joseph K. Ritter, Ph.D.
Dana E. Selley, Ph.D.
Keith L. Shelton, Ph.D.
Laura J. Sim-Selley, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Eustis Turf, Ph.D.
Sandra P. Welch, Ph.D.
Fan Zhang, Ph.D.
Yang Zhang, Ph.D.