Jason Wallach is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Saint Joseph’s University. He holds a B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of the Sciences. He teaches courses on laboratory biomethods, pharmacology and toxicology laboratory techniques, psychopharmacology, pathology, simulated physiology labs, and toxicology. He also works at the Substance Use Disorders Institute, where he is interested in medical cannabis and the curriculum development of substance use disorder education. His research focuses on the analytical and pharmacological characterizations of psychoactive drugs, focusing on synthetic psychoactive drugs (SPDs) and “legal highs”. He also conducts research on drug development for several therapeutic areas including neuropathic pain, neurodegenerative disease, depression, and cancer. This work includes investigations of structure–activity relationships, drug tolerability, target selectivity and multi-target drug design, and biased ligand developments.
