Bradley McConnell is a Professor of Pharmacology and Assistant Chair in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy. He holds joint faculty appointments in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry (College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics) and is affiliated with multiple institutes including the Drug Discovery Institute (UH), Cardiovascular Research Institute (Baylor College of Medicine), and the Gulf Coast Consortia (Texas Medical Center). Education: B.S. in Biology (Pennsylvania State University), Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics (Case Western Reserve University), and Postdoctoral Fellow in Genetics (Harvard Medical School/Howard Hughes Medical Institute). Research focuses on cardiac signaling mechanisms in normal and diseased hearts, including β-adrenergic receptor signaling, AKAP-mediated pathways, and cell-based therapies for cardiac repair. Key projects involve reprogramming progenitor cells into functional cardiac cells, biased signaling studies, and understanding AKAP 'signalosomes' in cAMP pathways. His awards include the American Physiological Society Fellow (2014), American Heart Association Fellow (2011), and multiple teaching/mentoring awards from UH. He chairs the ASPET Cardiovascular Pharmacology Programming Committee and participates in national peer review committees. McConnell collaborates across disciplines through memberships in the Cougar Chairs Leadership Academy and National Center for Faculty Development. His lab integrates translational approaches—combining molecular biology, mouse models, and clinical insights—to advance heart repair therapies.








