Clinical Pharmacology Services
Research

Unique Characteristics: Capabilities/Facilities

  • Randle Gallucci, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    E-mail: randy-gallucci@ouhsc.edu
    Phone: 405-271-6593, x47188 | Fax: 405-271-7477
    Office: CPB 333

    Unique Capabilities/Facilities:
    PCR, RNA DNA isolation; Atlas Gene array expertise; genomics/gene regulation

    Research Description:
    Research focuses on the regulation of cytokines by xenobiotics and cytokine regulation of physiological responses such as necrosis and healing.

    Grant Information:
    "Interleukin-6 in Wound Healing". Awarded by OCAST.

  • Les Reinke, Ph.D.
    Interim Director, Oklahoma Center for Toxicology Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, College of Pharmacy
    E-mail: lester-reinke@ouhsc.edu
    Phone: 405-271-6593 | Fax: 405-271-7477
    Office: CPB 327

    Unique Capabilities/Facilities:
    Liver intermediary metabolism and drug metabolism; measuring/monitoring free radical reactions

    Research Description:
    Alcohol metabolism and toxicity Drug metabolism Free radical toxicology

    Grant Information:
    Free Radicals in Alcohol Liver Injury
    Mechanism of Anti-inflammatory Action by PBN Spin Traps

  • David W.A. Bourne, Ph.D.
    Professor of Pharmacy
    E-mail: david-bourne@ouhsc.edu
    Phone: 405-271-6481 | Fax: 405-271-7505
    Office: CPB 303

    Unique Capabilities/Facilities:
    Mathematical modeling, analytical (HPLC)

    Research Description:
    Toxicokinetics/pharmacokinetics software developments dosage form development assay development

  • Robert A. Lynch, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    E-mail: robert-lynch@ouhsc.edu
    Phone: 271-2070 | Fax: 271-1971
    Office: CHB 407A

    Unique Capabilities/Facilities:
    Graphite Furnace AA, GC/MS with Thermal Desorption

    Research Description:
    Human exposures to contaminants (metals, VOCs), ecological risk assessment

    Grant Information:
    Ecological Risks, Stakeholder Values and River Basins
    Social Network-Based Intervention for Reducing Lead Exposure

  • Gordon P. Sachdev, Ph.D.
    Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    E-mail: gordon-sachdev@ouhsc.edu
    Phone: 271-6593 | Fax: 271-7505
    Office: CPB 315

    Unique Capabilities/Facilities:
    Cell culture and saccharide structural determination facility

    Research Description:
    Effects of Pseudomona alruginosa endotoxins as well as from other gram-negative bacteria such as Hemaplulus influenzae or the transcriptional regation and secretion of airway mucins by airway epithelial cells. Also, role of inflammatory mediators on the mucin gene regulation and expression.

    Grant Information:
    Biochemistry of Cystic Fibrosis Mucous Secretions

  • Philip Kemp, Ph.D.
    Chief Forensic Toxicologist and Adjunct Assistant Professor
    E-mail: p_kemp@ocmeokc.state.ok.us
    Phone: 405-239-7141 | Fax: 405-239-2430
    Office: 901 N. Stonewall

    Unique Capabilities/Facilities:
    State of the arat forensic toxicology laboratory equipped for various analytical techniques.

    Research Description:
    Postmortem distribution of drugs and chemicals in man. Gas chromatography, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, high performance liquid chromatography and thin-layer chromatography.

  • John J. Mulvihill, Ph.D.
    Kimberly V. Talley Chair in Genetics; Professor of Pediatrics
    E-mail: john-mulvihill@ouhsc.edu
    Phone: 271-8685 | Fax: 271-8710
    Office: CHO B2418

    Unique Capabilities/Facilities:
    National Registry of Pregnancies Exposed to Cancer Chemotherapy

    Research Description:
    R01 grants for Registry of Pancreatic Cancer Families (in effort to find the ecogenetics origins of pancreatic cancer; for Mortality and Cancer in a 4-generation cohort of neurofibromatosis in Denmark).

  • Robert Hurst, Ph.D.
    Professor, Dept. of Urology
    E-mail: Robert-Hurst@ouhsc.edu
    Phone: 271-3930 | Fax: 271-3118
    Office: BMSB 140A

    Unique Capabilities/Facilities:
    Gene array analysis 3-dimensional tissue culture models Immunohistochemistry

    Research Description:
    1. Development of tumor within epithelium; cellular interactions 2. Functional genomics of bladder epithelium 3. Epigenetic factors in carcinogenics

    Grant Information:
    Mapping of the Distribution of Significant Proteins and Proteoglycans
    Bladder Cancer Biomarkers as Guides to Surgery and Therapy

  • David Johnson, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of Occupational and Environmental Health
    E-mail: david-johnson@ouhsc.edu
    Phone: 405-271-2070 | Fax: 405-271-1971
    Office: CHB 413

    Unique Capabilities/Facilities:
    Aerosol generation and aerodynamic characterization; aerosol physics

    Research Description:
    Inhalation exposures to gaseous and aerosol atmospheres for toxicity research. Controlled generation and characterization of exposure/test atmospheres.

    Grant Information:
    Hazard Material Emergency Preparedness
    Residential Particulate Matter (PM) Exposures at Tar Creek