Theresa Filtz
Research/Career Interests
Trained as a pharmacologist, Dr. Filtz has been interested in signal transduction, or how cells respond to a chemical signal. Although she no longer has an active laboratory, over her faculty career, she has studied dopamine receptors, the targets for antipsychotic agents; and post-translational regulation pf phospholipase C-beta, a key signaling enzyme, and Bcl11b, a tumor suppressor protein associated with leukemias. Additional studies in the Filtz lab looked at hawthorn plant extracts for direct activity on heart cells. Other collaborative studies have focused on graduate and PharmD education in Colleges of Pharmacy.
Dr. Filtz is no longer accepting students into a laboratory research program.
Credentials
University of North Carolina, Postdoctoral fellow, 1993-1998
University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Pharmacology, 1993
University of Virginia, B.S. Chemistry, 1986
1601 SW Jefferson Avenue
Pharmacy Building 205B
97331 OR
United States
Dr. Filtz's general research interest is in signal transduction. As a pharmacologist, her lab has studied post-translational regulation of signaling proteins and transcription factors associated with T cell leukemias and atrial fibrillation, and the effects of natural products on heart cells.