Lance R. McMahon, Ph.D., is the Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
He has a tenured appointment as Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy, and Professor of Medical Education in the School of Medicine. He is chair of the TTUHSC Research Council, member of the Texas Tech Research Park Board, and member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics. Dr. McMahon is committed to TTUHSC’s vision to transform healthcare through innovation and collaboration, focusing on advancements in cancer, neuroscience, infectious disease, and cardiometabolic disorders.
Dr. McMahon serves on the Department of Defense Chronic Pain Management Programmatic Panel of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, and has over 20 years of service as regular and ad hoc study section member of the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review. He has secured $25M in NIH funding for his research in behavioral pharmacology and central nervous system (CNS) drug discovery and development and has published 135 peer-reviewed publications.
He has held leadership positions within the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.
