PETER J WEST portrait
  • Research Associate Professor, Pharmacology And Toxicology
  • Research Assistant Professor, Pharmacology And Toxicology

Education

  • Postdoctoral, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah
  • Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Utah
  • B.S., Biochemistry, Lehigh University

Professional Experience

 
2022 - Present Research Associate Professor. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2012 - 2021 Research Assistant Professor. Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2011 - 2021 Research Assistant Professor. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2010 - Present Co-Investigator. Epilepsy Therapy Screening Program (ETSP), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2007 - 2010 Research Scientist: In vitro electrophysiology. CNS Biology, Cephalon Inc., West Chester, PA
2003 - 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow: Mediation and modulation of synaptic transmission by kainate receptors of the medial entorhinal cortex. Advisor: Karen S. Wilcox, PhD. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1997 - 2003 Graduate Research Student: Delta- and mu-Conotoxins - Peptides from cone snail venoms that selectively affect tetrodotoxin-sensitive and tetrodotoxin-resistant voltagegated sodium channels. Advisors: Baldomero M. Olivera, PhD, & Doju Yoshikami, PhD. Neuroscience Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1996 - 1997 Undergraduate Research Student: Analysis of heparin’s effects on chondroitin sulfate and heparan sulfate proteoglycan expression in the vascular system. Advisor: Linda Lowe-Krentz, PhD. Department of Biochemistry, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
1994 Research Technician: Synthesis and purification of polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccines. Connaught Laboratories Inc., Swiftwater, PA