Drugs, Stress and Human Function

Richard Almon earned his B.S. in Psychology and Mathematics, his M.S. in Physiology, and his Ph.D in Physiology and Biochemistry at the University of Illinois. Dr. Almon is an active researcher with academic appointments in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He has over 30 years of experience teaching non-major biology courses such as pharmacology and nutrition, as well as graduate level endocrinology. His research specialization is in systems biology, an interdisciplinary area that integrates a number of disciplines ranging from physiology to molecular biology. Dr. Almon has over 120 scientific publications to his credit. Debra DuBois earned her B.S. in Human Genetics at McGill University and her M.S. and Ph. D. in Biological Sciences at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Dr. DuBois holds academic appointments in the departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the university. In conjunction with Dr. Richard Almon, she has more than 90 scientific publications to her credit. Her work investigates phenomena such as autoimmunity, gravitational biology, muscular dystrophy, fetal metabolic programming, arthritis, and diabetes from the genetic to the systems level. Amanda S. Almon is a certified Medical Illustrator. She earned her B.F.A. in Medical Illustration at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and her M.F.A. at the University of Michigan, where she completed the AMI accredited program in Biomedical Illustration. She is an associate professor and the Head of Biomedical Art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an adjunct professor of anatomy at Case Western Reserve University.