Our Team

Roderic G Eckenhoff, MD

Austin Lamont Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs, Perelman School of Medicine
 reckenho@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
 215.746.8699
 Roderic's Profile Page

Rod Eckenhoff's publications

Graduate Group Affiliations

• Neuroscience
• Pharmacology

Maryellen F Eckenhoff, PhD

Research Associate
 maryellen.eckenhoff@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
 215.573.8208
 Maryellen's Faculty Profile Page

Maryellen's Publications

Weiming Bu, PhD

Research Specialist
 weiming.bu@uphs.upenn.edu

Weiming is a structural biologist, using protein expression and crystallography in the lab. He is also the radiation officer for the Eckenhoff lab. See Weiming Bu's publications.

Victoria M. Bedell, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
 Victoria.Bedell@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Vicki came to PENN for her anesthesia residency as a Dripps Fellow. Vicki began her research on anesthetic mechanisms in zebrafish during her residency and continued during her postdoctoral fellowship on the Department's NIH T32 Training Grant and received  a FAER Mentored Research Grant. Vicki is currently an assistant professor and continues collaborations with our lab. 

Victoria Bedell’s Publications

Thomas Joseph, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
 thomas.joseph@uphs.upenn.edu
 UPenn Faculty Profile Page

Tom came to our lab as a postdoctoral fellow on the department's NIH T32 training grant, after completing his anesthesia residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.  Tom's research focus is on anesthetic mechanisms using molecular dynamic simulations, for which he received a FAER Mentored Research Grant and recently an NIH K08 grant. Tom is an assistant professor and is continuing his collaborations with our lab.

Thomas Joseph's publications and faculty webpage.

E. Railey White, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
 E.Railey.White@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Railey came to PENN for her anesthesia residency and was selected to be a Dripps Fellow.  Railey began using her expertise in chemical biology to understand the mechanisms of anesthetic action during her residency and while a postdoctoral fellow on the department’s NIH T32 Training grant. She was awarded both a FAER Research Fellowship Grant  and a FAER Mentored Research Grant .  Railey is currently an assistant professor and is continuing collaborations with our lab. 

E. Railey White’s publications

Adam Hines, PhD

Former Fulbright Future Scholar, Graduate Student

Adam was a Fullbright Future Scholar in our lab studying how anesthetics inhibit the syntaxin/SNAP-25 presynaptic mechanisms. He his PhD in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 

See Adam's publications

Kellie A. Woll, PhD

Former Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow

Kellie, as a pharmacology graduate student, completed her PhD thesis in our lab and remained briefly in the lab as a postdoctoral fellow before accepting a postdoctoral fellowship with Filip Van Petegen at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

See Kellie Woll's publications.

Brian P. Weiser, PhD

Former Graduate Student

Brian was a Pharmacology graduate student and completed his thesis work in our lab. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Philip A Cole in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and recently accepted a position as an assistant professor at Rowan University.

See Brian Weiser's publications.