Faculty
Primary Appointments
Stephen C. Cannon, MD, PhD
Chair, Physiology, Interim Chair, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, Interim Director, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging
Yousang Gwack, PhD
Executive Vice Chair, Physiology; Professor, Physiology
Laura DeNardo, PhD
Vice Chair for Community Affairs, Physiology; Associate Professor, Physiology; Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Fayal Abderemane-Ali, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physiology
Jeff S. Abramson, PhD
Professor, Physiology
Navid Bavi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physiology
Ambre Bertholet, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physiology
Lindsay De Biase, PhD
Associate Professor, Physiology; Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Marino Di Franco, PhD
Director, Physiology Student Laboratory
Baljit S. Khakh, PhD
Professor, Physiology; Professor, Neurobiology; Associate Director of Research, Brain Research Institute; Vice Chair, UCLA Neuroscience; Director, UCLA Physiology Outreach Program
Thomas J. O'Dell, PhD
Professor, Physiology; Gail Patrick Endowed Administrative Chair in Brain Research
Bernard Ribalet, PhD
Emeritus on recall
Kenneth P. Roos, PhD
Emeritus on recall; Adjunct Professor
Sonal Srikanth, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Physiology
Hui Sun, PhD
Professor, Physiology; Professor, Ophthalmology
Chuchu Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physiology; Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Hao Zhang, MD
Assistant Professor, Physiology
Secondary Appointments
Gregory A. Brent, MD
Professor, Medicine; Professor, Physiology
Linda L. Demer, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine; Professor, Physiology; Professor, Bioengineering Vice Chair, Department of Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jared Diamond, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Geography; Distinguished Professor, Physiology; Distinguished Professor, Public Health UCLA
Tamir Gonen, PhD, DSc
Professor, Biological Chemistry; Professor, Physiology
Eduardo Marban, MD, PhD
Professor In Residence, Medicine; Professor In Residence, Physiology; Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Istvan Mody, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Neurology; Distinguished Professor, Physiology
Riccardo Olcese, PhD
Professor, Anesthesiology; Professor, Physiology
Rene R.S. Packard, MD, PhD
Associate Professor In-Residence, Medicine; Associate Professor of Medicine, Physiology
Tamer I. Sallam, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine & Physiology Vice Chair, Department of Medicine Co-Director UCLA Center for Lipid Management Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Yin Tintut, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Physiology
Thomas Vondriska, PhD
Professor, Anesthesiology; Professor, Medicine; Professor, Physiology
Shimon Weiss, DSC
Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Biological Chemistry; Distinguished Professor, Physiology, Department of Physics, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, 52900 Israel
Emeriti
Francisco J. Bezanilla, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Allan J. Brady, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Jennifer S. Buchwald(-Baerwald), PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Christopher B. Cooper, MD
Professor Emeritus, Medicine; Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Joy S. Frank, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Alan D. Grinell, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology; Professor Emeritus, Integrative Biology & Physiology; Associate Dean, College of Letters & Science
Earl Homsher, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Sally Krasne, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology; Distinguished Research Professor, Physiology
Michael S. Letinsky, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Emeran Mayer, MD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Diane M Papazian, PhD
Emeriti, Professor, Physiology
Kenneth D. Philipson, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Peipei Ping, PhD
UC Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Medicine/Cardiology, & Biomedical Informatics; Director of Integrated Data Science Training, Bridge2AI Bridge Center-TRM, & CFDE ICC Sustainability Core; Associate Director of Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAI)
Eduardo H. Rubinstein, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Enrico Stefani, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Anesthesiology; Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Julio L. Vergara, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Physiology
Yibin Wang, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
Nancy L. Wayne, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Physiology
James N. Weiss, MD
Distinguished Professor, Medicine; Distinguished Professor, Physiology; Kawata Endowed Chair in Cardiology; Director, UCLA Cardiovascular Research Laboratory; Chief, Division of Cardiology
Ernest M. Wright, PhD, DSc
Emeritus on recall; Distinguished Professor; Mellinkoff Distinguished Professor in Medicine