Rick G. Schnellmann, PhD, Honored by Southern Arizona VA
Rick G. Schnellmann, PhD, dean of the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and the Howard J. Schaeffer Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences, was named the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System’s Investigator of the Year 2024.
Dr. Schnellmann studies mitochondrial dysfunction and biogenesis, with a focus on identifying and developing drugs to treat acute kidney injury, diabetic kidney disease, stroke, spinal cord injury and Parkinson’s disease. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and reviews and authored more than 30 book chapters. Dr. Schnellmann has been a member of ASPET since 1984 and was the editor of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from 2004 to 2009. In 2024, he was named an ASPET Fellow.
ASPET Welcomes New Members
Each month, ASPET welcomes new members to our home for pharmacology. This month, we recognize 89 individuals from 58 universities, colleges and companies who have joined 4,000 other members in the pharmacology community. Learn more about ASPET membership.
Alexandria University
Heba-Tallah Abd Elkader
Aquinas College
Suliman Aburahma
Boston College
Emma Andrechek
Jackson Slavny
Carnegie Mellon University
Ron Aoyama
Case Western Reserve University
John Bair
Mariah Bime
Tyler Bland
Ella Boyer
Kaylin Broussard
Myra Qin
Drew University
Felix Chan
George Fox University
Celeste Cifuentes
Hope College
Marcelo Claudio Sotomayor
Johns Hopkins University
Rodnie Colon Ortiz
Alyssa Detweiler
Kardigan Bio
Ella Donahue
Kenyon College
Aaron Espinoza
Louisiana State University
Paulina Esquinca-Moreno
Louisiana Tech University
Sabrina Ezell
Lyon College
Vittalia Fleurantin
Madonna University
Kaitlyn Fox
Marymount University
Rylee Freudenthal
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Fernanda Fumuso
Michigan State University
Cornelius Gati
Deepika Godugu
Abigail Goldman
Monet Gonda
Riley Greenleaf
Meagan Hastings
North Carolina A&T State University
Caden Heminger
North Central College
Lucie Hranacova
Northeastern University
Benjamin Hunter
Oberlin College
Enrique Infanzon
Pacific University
Thomas Jackson
Ruoquan Jiang
Penn State College of Medicine
Holley Johnson
Purdue University
Camille Johnson
Dagen Jones Renfro
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Ian Kelly
Alexander Krammer
Arjan Kundan
Smith College
Evelyn Lee
St Johns University
Mengyue Li
SUNY University at Buffalo
Christian Lopez
Amanda Maldonado
Christian Morrison
William Muliawan
Levi Neal
Taylor University
Jean Carlo Marca Narvaez
Texas State University
Katherine Marrs
Texas Women’s University
Alyssa Maye
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Zari McCullers
Trinity University
Faith Montemayor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Benjamin Nketsiah
University of Arizona
Dylan Oest
Rio Ohtake
Kayla Otto
Rachel Parker
Sophia Percy
Valentina Perez
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Holly Petersen
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Justin Pressley
University of California Berkeley
Jesse Racsko
University of California Davis
Joel Redman
University of Colorado at Denver
Kevin Ren
University of Florida
Ian Render Flores
University of Idaho
Joseph Roman
University of Kansas
Elizabeth Ryerson
University of Miami
Sneha Sahoo
University of Michigan
Sophia Salbato
Audrey Shao
Kanika Sharma
University of Minnesota
Fox Shreiber
University of Pittsburgh
Shawn Szczygiel
Monica Tschang
Hayden Tucker
Theresa Umeji
University of Puerto Rico
Tvisha Vijayakumar
Bella Voiland
University of South Carolina
Dylann Volz
University of Southern California
Paul Wakshlag
University of Texas at Austin
Justin Wartell
University of Virginia
John Westphal
University of Washington
Samantha Worobey
Valparaiso University
Qihao Wu
Vanderbilt University
Afraz Yousuf
Wake Forest University
Logan Yu
Winthrop University
Angela Zhang