| Name/Degree(s) | Rank | Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s) | Role in Program | Research Interest |
| Albers, Kathryn M, PhD | Professor | Medicine-GI (Neurobiology) | Mentor | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of growth factor action on sensory neurons; mechanisms of pain |
| Angus, Derek, MD, MPH | Professor and Chair | Critical Care Medicine (Medicine, Health Policy & Management) | Mentor | ICU outcomes, clinical trials |
| Bahar, Ivet, PhD | Professor and Chair | Computational & Systems Biology | Mentor | Protein dynamics and allostery, biomolecular computations |
| Billiar, Timothy, MD | Professor and Chair | Surgery | Mentor | Aspects of inflammation and organ injury in settings relevant to trauma and shock |
| Birder, Lori A., PhD | Assoc. Prof. | Medicine (Pharmacology) | Mentor | Complexities of urinary bladder epithelial (urothelial) cell function and urothelial cell-neuronal interactions; cell signaling and sensory mechanism; pain in urothelium cancer |
| Boada, Fernando, PhD | Assoc. Prof. | Radiology (Bioengineering) | Mentor | Quantitative functional MRI, Image reconstruction and analysis, Sodium imaging, Stroke and brain tumors |
| Brandom, Barbara, MD | Professor | Anesthesiology | Executive Committee, Mentor | Clinical manifestations of malignant hyperthermia (MH) susceptibility and improvement of diagnostic testing for MH |
| Clark, Robert S.B., MD | Assoc. Prof. | Critical Care Medicine (Pediatrics) | Mentor | Neuronal death; apoptosis autophagy |
| Davis, Brian M., PhD | Professor | Medicine (Neurobiology) | Mentor | Growth factor regulation in sensory neurons |
| DeFranco, Donald B., PhD | Professor | Pharmacology & Chemical Biology (Neuroscience) | Mentor | Cellular Ca2+ homeostasis as it relates to the pharmacogenetic syndrome Malignant Hyperthermia (MH) |
| Freeman, Bruce, PhD | Professor and Chair | Pharmacology & Chemical Biology | Mentor | Roles in inflammatory, vascular and pulmonary diseases; Biochemical mechanisms governing the production and subsequent reactions of O2.-, .NO, ONOO-, H2O2 and ROOH in eukaryotes |
| Gebhart, Gerald F., PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology (Medicine; Pharmacology; Neurobiology) | Mentor | Visceral pain and hyperalgesia |
| Glorioso, Joseph C., PhD | Professor and Chair | Microbiology & Molecular Genetics (Biochemistry) | Mentor | HSV for delivery and expression of therapeutic genes in neurons |
| Gold, Michael S., PhD | Assoc. Prof. | Anesthesiology (Neurobiology) | Executive Committee, Mentor | Peripheral mechanisms of pain |
| Gyulai, Ferenc, MD | Assoc. Prof. | Anesthesiology (Neurosurgery) | Mentor | Deleterious interaction of a GABAA-receptor preferring general anesthetics with persistent inflammation |
| Homanics, Gregg, PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology (Pharmacology and Chemical Biology) | Mentor | Mechanisms of alcohol and anesthetic action |
| Johnson, Jon W., PhD | Professor | Neuroscience | Mentor | Biophysics, Pharmacology, and Regulation of Glutamate Receptors |
| Kim, Seong-Gi, PhD | Professor, Paul C. Lauterbur in Imaging Research | Radiology (Neurobiology) | Mentor | 1) development of physiological and functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques, 2) investigation of biophysical and physiological sources of newly developed techniques, and 3) application of these to map brain function and physiology. |
| Kochanek, Patrick M., MD | Professor and Vice Chairman | Critical Care Medicine (Pediatrics; Anesthesiology) | Mentor | Traumatic brain injury, Pediatric neurointensive care and cerebral resuscitation: CTRC Associate Director |
| Koerber, H. Richard, PhD | Professor | Neurobiology | Mentor | Development, plasticity and pain processing in sensory neurons and in the spinal dorsal horn |
| Lariviere, William, PhD | Asst. Prof. | Anesthesiology (Neurobiology) | Mentor | Genetics of individual variability in pain and analgesia; Interactions between stress and pain systems |
| Parness, Jerome, MD, PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology | Mentor | Cellular Ca2+ homeostasis in skeletal muscle and its relationship to Malignant Hyperthermia |
| Pinsky, Michael, MD | Professor | Critical Care Medicine | Mentor | unsolved problems in the treatment of various cardiopulmonary insufficiency states |
| Pitt, Bruce R., PhD | Professor and Chair | Public Health-Environmental & Occupational Health (Pharmacology and Chemical Biology; Bioengineering) | Mentor | molecular pharmacology of pulmonary circulation |
| Reder, Lynne M., PhD | Professor | Psychology (Carnegie Mellon University) | Mentor | cognitive neuroscience to facilitate the study of memory |
| Strick, Peter L., PhD | Professor | Neurobiology (Neurological Surgery; Psychiatry; Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University) | Mentor | Control of voluntary movement by the cerebral cortex |
| Tang, Pei, PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology (Pharmacology; Computational & Systems Biology) | Mentor | Action of low-affinity drugs (general anesthetics and alcohols) on neurotransmitter-gated receptor channels |
| Tarpey, Margaret, MD | Professor | Anesthesiology | Mentor | Interplay of oxidants with nitric oxide in the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of vascular dysfunction |
| Waters, Jonathan, MD | Professor | Anesthesiology (Biomedical Engineering) | Mentor | Blood cell tolerance to mechanical shear stress |
| Williams, Brian A., MD | Assoc. Prof. | Anesthesiology | Mentor | efficacy and safety of perineural drugs (other than local anesthetics, and in combination with local anesthetics) to design a perineural analgesic mixture that maximizes analgesic duration while minimizing motor block duration. |
| Xu, Yan, PhD | Professor | Anesthesiology (Pharmacology; Structural Biology) | Program Director, Mentor | Molecular mechanisms underlying the actions of nonspecific drugs on ligand-gated neuronal receptors in their membrane environment |
| Yoshimura, Naoki, MD, PhD | Professor | Urology (Pharmacology) | Mentor | Neural pathways that control the lower urinary tract after spinal cord injury |
| Zhang, Li-Ming, MD | Asst. Prof. | Anesthesiology | Mentor | Mechanisms of ventilation-induced pulmonary injuries |