Dr. Scammell’s research, supported by the National Center for Research Resources - a component of the National Institutes of Health - examines various molecular mechanisms involved in endocrine system regulation. His work seeks to better understand steroid hormone resistance in humans by using a laboratory model that has a naturally occurring form of glucocorticoid resistance.
Glucocorticoid resistance is reduced sensitivity toward corticosteroids and is observed in inflammatory diseases, cancer and depression. A more complete understanding of the causes of glucocorticoid resistance can improve the efficacy of corticosteroid therapy.
Dr. Scammell has been a member of the USA College of Medicine faculty since 1986. He earned his doctorate in physiology from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla., after receiving his biology degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He completed his post doctoral fellowship in pharmacology at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.
