Grants and Contracts:

W. Jonathan Lederer, MD, PhD, Professor, Pharmacology and Physiology, received a one year voucher support totaling $5,000 from University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) for “Three dimensional structure of a minimum metabolic unit in mouse heart”.

Publications: Presentations, Events, Lectures & Workshops:

Robert J. Bloch, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, delivered a lecture via Zoom on March 13 to students at University College London (UK), titled “Xenografts of Skeletal Muscle to Study Muscular Dystrophies.”

Publications:

Robert J. Bloch, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, was senior author of "Dysferlin's C2A Domain Supports Normal Ca2+ Signaling and Membrane Repair in Dysferlin-Null Myofibers ", in press in the Journal of General Physiology. 

Robert J. Bloch, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, was among the co-authors of “Spatiotemporal DUX4 Toxicity in FSHD: From Epigenetic Derepression to Biomarker-driven Targeted Therapies,” which is in press in Neuromuscular Disorders on March 31, 2026

Brian N. Mathur, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Psychiatry, was senior author of “Anterior cingulate cortex activation of claustrum projection neuron subtypes is enhanced by alcohol", which was published in Neuropharmacology on March 30, 2026. 

Matthew Trudeau, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, was the author of “The PAS domain directly regulates hERG channel gating in patch-clamp fluorometry recordings,” which was published in Biophysical Journal on March 19, 2026.