Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Aaron Jacobs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Aaron Jacobs, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, will be teaching pharmacology in Integrated Therapeutics I-IV.
Dr. Jacobs focuses current research on identifying the role of
individual, heat shock regulated genes in this adaptive response, and
examining their contribution in disease processes such as cancer and
neurodegeneration. Future work will incorporate the study of natural
compounds for their effects on heat shock gene expression, as well as
other pathways that mediate cellular adaptation. He comes to UH-H from
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., where he was a Research
Associate in biochemistry, studying the effect of oxidized lipids on
cellular function and viability. He received a bachelor's degree in
biology from the University of California at Irvine, and his Ph.D. from
UCLA.