Scott Boitano

Scott Boitano has been associated with the University of Arizona since he moved to Tucson in 2002. He established research in lung toxicology and drug development targeting the protease activated receptor-2 (a G protein-coupled receptor that is expressed in the airway epithelium, where it participates in exacerbations of allergic asthma. It is also expressed in nociceptors (pain sensing neurons), where it participates in pain pathways).At the University of Arizona, Dr. Boitano has been part of a collaboration with Drs. Theodore J. Price and Josef Vagner that has developed the most potent agonists and the only antagonist that can block all signaling pathways activated by proteases. Current interests include the further development of agonists and antagonists into drugs that can be used in the control of asthma and pain.

Scott Boitano has been associated with the University of Arizona since he moved to Tucson in 2002. He established research in lung toxicology and drug development targeting the protease activated receptor-2 (a G protein-coupled receptor that is expressed in the airway epithelium, where it participates in exacerbations of allergic asthma. It is also expressed in nociceptors (pain sensing neurons), where it participates in pain pathways).

At the University of Arizona, Dr. Boitano has been part of a collaboration with Drs. Theodore J. Price and Josef Vagner that has developed the most potent agonists and the only antagonist that can block all signaling pathways activated by proteases. Current interests include the further development of agonists and antagonists into drugs that can be used in the control of asthma and pain.

BS, Plant Pathology, University of California, Berkeley, 1983PhD, Genetics and Cell Biology, Washington State University, 1991