Professor
University of Arizona
Dr. Patrick T. Ronaldson is a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Ronaldson obtained his bachelor’s degree in Pharmacology and his doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, both from the University of Toronto, Canada. Following doctoral studies, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Ronaldson’s laboratory is focused on studying transporters at the blood-brain barrier (BBB)/neurovascular unit (NVU) for improved drug delivery and/or therapeutic targeting in the setting of neurological diseases such as stroke and drug abuse/misuse. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and 8 book chapters on neuropharmacology, BBB physiology, and transporter pharmacology. Dr Ronaldson’s laboratory has a strong record of extramural funding including current grants from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and National Institute on Aging. He is the current chair of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. He has previously served on NIH study sections such as Drug Discovery for the Nervous System (DDNS) and Small Business Neurological Drug Discovery (NV-14). Dr. Ronaldson was elevated to fellow status by AAPS at the PharmSci360 meeting in October 2023.