Randy Peterson

Randy Peterson is a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Utah. His research focuses on utilizing zebrafish models for phenotypic screening, neuropharmacology, disease modeling, and genome editing to discover novel therapeutics.

Education:

• B.S. from Brigham Young University
• Ph.D. from Harvard University

Research areas include developmental biology (studying small molecule effects on hematopoiesis and embryonic patterning), disease physiology (modeling human diseases in zebrafish for drug discovery), and neuroscience (developing behavioral phenotyping tools to understand neuronal signaling and accelerate neuroactive drug discovery). His work emphasizes whole-organism screening for compounds with therapeutic potential.

Selected Publications (2010-2021) span CRISPR technology, mitochondrial metabolism modulation, TRPA1 channel activation, and behavioral pharmacology, with keywords including Developmental Biology, Neuropharmacology, and Chemical Biology.