Our Team
The Watkins Lab for Drug Safety Sciences is located in Kerr Hall at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, 301 Pharmacy Lane, in Chapel Hill, N.C. We encourage you to contact us to meet our team members and learn more about what the institute offers.
Paul B. Watkins, M.D.
Director
Howard Q. Ferguson Distinguished Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Professor, Medicine-Gastroenterology
Professor, Public Heath-Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Paul Watkins, M.D., is director of the Watkins Lab for Drug Safety Sciences at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the Howard Q. Ferguson Distinguished Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics.
Rachel Church, Ph.D.
UNC Organ Injury Biomarker Core Director
Assistant Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Rachel Church, Ph.D., researches ways to broaden the use and understanding of newer biomarkers by leading the UNC Organ Injury Biomarker Core.
Kim Brouwer, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Yanguang Cao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Daniel Gonzalez, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Klarissa Jackson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Craig Lee, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Gauri Rao, Pharm.D., M.S.
Associate Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Tim Wiltshire, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Genetics
Tracy Russell, CCRP
Clinical Research Specialist
Brett Howell, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Office
DILIsym Services Inc.
Associate Director
DILI-sim Initiative
Gerd Kullak-Ublick, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Director, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
University Hospital of Zurich
Dean Naisbitt, Ph.D.
Professor of Drug Safety Science
University of Liverpool
Kevin Park, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology
University of Liverpool
Bob Powell, Pharm.D.
Adjunct Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Roth, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Director, Graduate Program in Environmental and Integrative Toxicological Sciences, Michigan State University
Sharin Roth
Director, Clinical Pharmacology, Bioanalytical & Biomarkers
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.
Scott Siler, Ph.D.
President
DILIsym Services Inc.
Associate Director
DILI-sim Initiative
James Stevens, Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Fellow
Lilly Research Laboratories
Daniel Weiner, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christina Battista, Ph.D.
FDA ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow
Kristina DeSmet, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Emily Fawcett
Undergraduate Intern
Daniel Gatti, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Allison Harrill, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rhiannon Hardwick, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Natalie Holman, Ph.D.
Doctoral Student
Brett Howell, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Catherine Lisa Kurtz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jingtao Lu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Leah Norona
Doctoral Student
Andrea Prestemon
Undergraduate Intern
Sarah Thacker
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeff Woodhead, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kyunghee Yang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yuching Yang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow