The Faculty of the Department of Physiology at WSU SOM are activately engaged in many exciting and cutting-edge areas of research in basic and applied physiology and pathophysiology.

Areas of concentration in the Department include:

• Cardiovascular pathophysiology and muscle contractility
• Neural regulation of peripheral organ systems
• Ischemia and reperfusion injury of heart and brain
• Basic cellular physiology of endocrine signallin
• Biochemical and biophysical studies of ion transport, and cellular stress responses
• Respiratory Physiology and Sleep