Tina Iverson has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Pharmacology since 2005. She is the Louise B. McGavock Chair and a professor of biochemistry.
In addition to her professorships, Iverson is an active member of the Center for Structural Biology and the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation. Her lab’s research focuses on the intersection between mitochondrial metabolism and signaling. These metabolic signaling systems affect a range of human diseases of altered cell fate, most notably cancer and neurodegeneration.