Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Donald McDonnell, PhD, Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology. Multi-disciplinary researcher utilizing biochemical, genetic, and chemical biological approaches to define targetable regulatory steps in estrogen, androgen, progesterone, and estrogen-related receptor signaling pathways in reproductive cancers, breast cancer and diseases associated with dysregulated hormone signaling; developed mechanism-based screens that have resulted in the discovery of several drug/drug combinations that are currently being evaluated in the clinic (or approved for clinical use).