Professor
University of Arizona
Dr. Patrick T. Ronaldson is a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Ronaldson obtained his bachelor’s degree in Pharmacology and his doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, both from the University of Toronto, Canada. Following doctoral studies, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Ronaldson’s laboratory is currently focused on targeting blood-brain barrier (BBB) transporters for delivery of neuroprotective drugs and for vascular protection in the setting of cerebral hypoxia and ischemic stroke. His laboratory is also working to understand changes to BBB tight junction complexes in health and disease and on development of novel therapeutic strategies for Alzheimer’s disease. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles and 8 book chapters on drug transporters and BBB biology. Dr. Ronaldson is the past chair of the NIH study section entitled Drug Discovery for the Nervous System (DDNS) and the past chair of the Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Drug Metabolism (PPDM) Community of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). Dr. Ronaldson is the dissertation mentor to eight PhD students, which provides him the opportunity to share his passion for research with the next generation of scientists.