KAREN S WILCOX portrait
  • Chair, Pharmacology And Toxicology
  • Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Professor, Pharmacology And Toxicology
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Education

  • B.A. , Psychology, Allegheny College
  • Ph.D., Biomedical Graduate Studies, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania. Project: Paired pulse depression of inhibitory postsynaptic currents in rat hippocampal neurons in low-density tissue culture

Professional Experience

  • Distinguished Professor, May 2023- present
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, July, 2020 - Present
  • Director, Contract Site of Epilepsy Therapy Screening Program, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Utah, Jan 2016- present
  • Chair, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Jan 2015 – present
  • Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. July 2012 – present
  • Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. July 2008 – June 2012
  • Co-Investigator, Anticonvulsant Drug Development Program, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 July 2004-present.
  • Research Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112. Oct 2002 – June 2008.
  • Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112. July 1999 – Oct 2002.
  • Senior Scientist, Anticonvulsant Drug Development Program, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 (Principal Investigator: Dr. H. Steve White) September, 1998-2004.
  • Research Associate, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA (Supervisor: Marc A. Dichter, M.D., Ph.D.) Spring 1993 – June 1998.
  • Scientist, Neurobiology Group, Medical Products Department, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, DE  (Supervisor: Greg R. Christoph, Ph.D.), Oct 1981 – Sept 1987.