Cardiology and Healthcare

S Jamal Mustafa is a Professor of Pharmacology at West Virginia University School of Medicine and a Senior Advisor to the Pilot Core of the West Virginia Clinical Science and Translational Institute. He has served as an Assistant Dean for Research at the Health Sciences Center from 2005-15. He has received Dean’s

Award for Excellence in Research from School of Medicine in 2008 and became a Robert C Byrd Professor in 2010. In addition, he received Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities from Health Sciences Center in 2013. He had published over 200 manuscripts. For almost 40 years, he had been studying the role of adenosine receptors in coronary flow regulation and it is signaling in coronary smooth muscle and endothelial cells from various species including human. He and his teams past work has led to the approval of a selective A2A adenosine receptor agonist (Lexican®) for myocardial perfusion imaging. Currently he and his team are using adenosine receptor and beta-adrenergic receptor knockout mice to understand the relationship between these receptors in coronary flow regulation leading to treatment of coronary artery disease.