Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Ah-Ng Tony Kong, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, William Levine Hall, Busch Campus (732-445-3831, ext. 226)                        

Email: kongt@rci.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Edward Arnold, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/CABM; Ph.D., Cornell
Protein and virus structure; crystallography; AIDS; polymerases; drug and vaccine design

Suzie Chen, Professor of Chemical Biology and Pharmacognosy, EMSP; Ph.D., Albert Einstein
Transgenic mice predisposed to melanoma development; molecular merchant of dipocyte differentiation; uu-inducible genes

John L. Colaizzi, Professor of Pharmacy and Dean Emeritus, EMSP; Ph.D., Purdue
Applied pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics

Allan H. Conney, Professor and Director of Laboratory for Cancer Research, EMSP; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Cytochromes P-450 and drug metabolism; chemical carcinogenesis

Thomas J. Cook, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Michigan
Drug/vaccine delivery systems; mechanisms of drug/antigen transport

Ronald Hart, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Neuroimmunology of central nervous system injuries

Joachim Kohn, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Weizmann (Israel)
Tissue engineering and biomaterials; development of new degradable polymers

Ah-Ng Tony Kong, Professor of Pharmaceutical Science, EMSP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Cancer preventive agents; pharmacokinetics; pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenomics

Fang Liu, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Harvard
Signal transduction and gene regulation; growth and differentiation control

Nicholas G. Lordi, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Purdue
Pharmaceutics

Bozena Michniak-Kohn, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Leicester Polytechnic
Topical and transdermal drug delivery

Audrey Minden, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Genetics

Tamara Minko, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Ukrainian Academy of Science
Drug delivery; biopharmaceutics; cancer pharmacology

Bandaru Reddy, Research Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Michigan State
Biochemistry, nutrition, and physiology

Eric H. Rubin, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., South Florida
Clinical and molecular approaches to inhibition of DNA topoisomerases

Patrick J. Sinko, Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Michigan
Biopharmaceutics; intestinal absorption mechanism; peptide drug analogs and anti-HIV drug metabolism

Stanley Stein, Professor of Molecular Biology, CABM/UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., CUNY
Protein analysis; synthesis of peptides and antisense DNA

Marc G. Sturgill, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, EMSP; Pharm.D., Kentucky
Pharmacokinetics; drug metabolism and pediatrics

Dong-Churl Suh, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics, EMSP; Ph.D., Minnesota
Pharmaceutical economics; cost effectiveness; outcomes assessment; prescription drug benefits policy and pharmaceutical pricing

Nanjoo Suh, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Chemoprevention of cancer by nuclear receptor ligands, triterpenoids, and TGF-beta

Paul E. Thomas, Professor of Chemical Biology and Pharmacognosy, EMSP; Ph.D., Ohio State
Antibody probes of the regulation and membrane topology of cytochrome P-450

Kathryn Uhrich, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Design, synthesis, and characterization of novel organic polymers for medicinal use

William E. Welsh, Professor of Pharmacology and Director, UMDNJ Informatics Institute, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Computer-aided molecular modeling and design; bioinformatics; cheminformatics

Chung S. Yang, Chair and Professor of Pharmacognosy, EMSP; Ph.D., Cornell
Carcinogenesis; chemoprevention; pharmacokinetic and bioavailability studies

Guofeng You, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Clark
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of drug transport

Joel L. Zatz, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Columbia
Pharmaceutics; percutaneous absorption and topical drug delivery

Renping Zhou, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP/EOHSI; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Molecular biology of axonal guidance and neural map formation

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty in the Pharmaceutics Track

Albert Cuitiño, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Brown
Computational solid mechanics

Fernando Muzzio, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Mixing; chaos and randomness; transport phenomena