Associate Professor
Department of Physiology & Biophysics,
RUSH Medical College
Education
PhD, Univeristy of Missouri
DVM, University of Missouri
Research Areas
Thomas Shannon, DVM, PhD, is interested in ionic channels, voltage gated ionic channels, fluorescence signal detection and electrophysiology, particularly as they relate to excitation-contraction coupling in striated muscle. Shannon uses multiple biochemical, biophysical and molecular approaches to study the control of the concentration of calcium in the storage organelle (the sarcoplasmic reticulum) of normal and abnormal cells of the heart.