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CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Pharmacology,
Physiology & Neuroscience
USC School of Medicine
6439 Garners Ferry Road
VA Building 1, Third Floor
Columbia, SC 29208
(For packages, use 29209)
Phone: 803-733-3254
Fax: 803-733-1523

Office of the Dean:
803-733-3200

Department News

• Candidate for PPN chair to visit in July
• PPN faculty sweeps 2008 teacher awards:
  Britt Wilson is MI 2008 Teacher of the Year
  Craig Davis is MII 2008 Teacher of the Year
  Craig Davis wins O'Neill Barrett Teaching Excellence Award
  
• Marlene Wilson wins Educational Foundation Award for Research in Health Sciences
• Leslie S. Jones takes position at Appalachian State
• Sonja Gurley & Glenda Fedricci complete GRANT Certificate Training
• Dani Frederick-Duus wins Student travel Award
• Jim Augustine publishes book on human brain
• Marlene Wilson named Interim Chair
• Recent Department News

Departmental Mission

The department provides expert instruction and conducts innovative research in neuroscience, physiology and pharmacology. Department faculty members teach students of medicine, nurse anesthesia and biomedical science in the classroom and the laboratory. Research activities focus on the roles of specific molecules in cellular function and their importance to organismal physiology and behavior.

FEATURED ARTICLE

Frederick-Duus, D.; Guyton, M.F.; Fadel, J. Food-elecited increases in cortical acetylcholine release require orexin transmisson. Neuroscience 149: 499-507; 2007.
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