Cory Abate-Shen, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology,UMDNJ-RWJMS/ CABM; Ph.D., Cornell Medical College
Molecular processes that control gene expression in vertebrate development and oncogenesis
Stephen Anderson, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Proteases and protease inhibitors; protein folding; molecular recognition; structural bioinformatics
Edward Arnold, Professor of Chemistry, CABM; Ph.D., Cornell
Protein and virus structure; AIDS; drug and vaccine design
Jean S. Baum, Associate Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Structural studies of proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques
Helen M. Berman, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Crystallographic and molecular modeling studies of biological molecules
Leonard Borack, Associate Professor of Zoology, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York
Biochemical genetics of Drosophila
Kenneth J. Breslauer, Linus C. Pauling Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Drug-DNA interactions; DNA lesions and mutagenesis/repair; DNA
conformational heterogeneity; ligand macromolecular recognition;
rational drug design; DNA-based diagnostics and therapeutics
Gary Brewer, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Auburn
Posttranscriptional control of gene expression in disease
Steven J. Brill, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
FAS-NB; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook) Eukaryotic DNA replication and genome stability
Barbara Brodsky, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Harvard
Structure and binding of triple-helix peptides as models for collagen and the macrophage scavenger receptor
George M. Carman, Professor of Food Science, CC; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Enzymology of phospholipid metabolism
Kiran K. Chada, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; D.Phil., Oxford Functional genomics in cancer and obesity
Theodore Chase, Jr., Professor of Biochemistry, CC; Ph.D., California
(Berkeley) Enzymology and molecular biology of plants, especially with
reference to flavor compounds
Kuang-Yu Chen, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Yale
Biochemistry and function of polyamines and hypasine; gene regulation
in cell aging and tumor reversion; nutraceuticals, cancer, and aging
Suzie Chen, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology and Pharmacognosy, EMSP; Ph.D., Albert Einstein
Spontaneous melanoma development in transgenic mice; mechanisms of adipocyte differentiation
Xuemei Chen, Assistant Professor of Genetics, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Cornell
Molecular genetic analysis of flower development in Arabidopsis
Khew-Voon Chin, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, CINJ/UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Drug resistance in cancers; regulation of gene expression
David T. Denhardt, Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Molecular biology of cancer; cell signaling and regulation of gene
expression; structure and function of osteopontin and tissue inhibitor
or metalloproteinases
Monica A. Driscoll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, CABM; Ph.D., Harvard
Molecular genetics of degenerative cell death; mechanical signaling
Richard H. Ebright, Professor of Chemistry, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Transcription; protein-DNA interaction; protein-protein interaction; single molecule imaging
Isaac Edery, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB/CABM; Ph.D., McGill
Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying biological clocks
Julie M. Fagan, Professor of Animal Sciences, CC; Ph.D., Arizona
Proteases and their inhibitors in health and disease
Bonnie Firestein, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Targeting of neuronal proteins
Joseph Fondell, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Regulation of gene expression by nuclear hormone receptors
Abram Gabriel, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB; M.D., Johns Hopkins
Mechanisms of retrotransposon replication; chromosomal rearrangements
Marc Gartenberg, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Yale
Chromosomal DNA structure and organization; transcriptional silencing
Donald Gerecke, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, EMSP; Ph.D., Harvard
Molecular biology of lung fibrosis
Marion Gordon, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, EMSP; Ph.D., UMDNJ/Rutgers
Collagen gene regulation during cornea development; regulation and
function of EMMPRIN, a matrix metalloproteinase stimulator, in normal
and transformed cells
Barth Grant, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Princeton
Endocytosis in C. elegans
Samuel Gunderson, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Gene expression; pre-mRNA processing; autoregulation; splicing; polyadenylation
Sarah E. Hitchcock-DeGregori, Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve
Biochemistry and molecular biology of contractile proteins
Shu-Chan Hsu, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, FAS-NB; Ph.D., British Columbia
Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development and function
Masayori Inouye, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Osaka
Membrane biogenesis; regulation of synthesis of outer membrane proteins
Sumiko Inouye, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Nagoya
Myxobacteria and bacterial reverse transcriptases
Kenneth D. Irvine, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Cell signaling and growth control during Drosophila development
Stephan S. Isied, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Modification of electron transfer proteins
Frank Jordan, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-N; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Mechanism of thiamin-dependent enzymes and of serine proteases
Peter C. Kahn, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, CC; Ph.D., Columbia
Multisubunit proteins; circular dichroism; agent orange
Frederick C. Kauffman, Professor of Pharmacology, EMSP; Ph.D., Illinois
Biochemical aspects of toxicology
Megerditch Kiledjian, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
RNA-protein interactions in the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression
Terri Goss Kinzy, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve
Eukaryotic translation elongation and regulation of gene expression
Tony Ah-Ng Kong, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Pharmacogenomics and toxicogenomics of cancer chemopreventative compounds
Marilyn Kozak, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins Mechanism of protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells
Eric Lam, Professor of Plant Science, BCAE/CC; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Plant gene targeting; programmed cell death; chromatin imaging
Jerome Langer, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Yale
Interferon and receptor structure and function; dengue virus interaction with cells
Debra Laskin, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, EMSP; Ph.D., Medical College of Virginia
Immunology; inflammation; cytokines, nitric oxide, macrophages
Jeffrey D. Laskin, Professor of Environmental and Community
Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Carcinogenesis and differentiation in cell culture; nitric oxide
John Lenard, Professor of Physiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Cornell
Transcription, replication, and fusion of RNA viruses; cellular fusion mechanisms
Ronald M. Levy, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Computational molecular biology; computational chemistry; computer
modeling of protein structure; folding and dynamics; structural
genomics
Alice Y.-C. Liu, Professor of Biological Sciences, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Mount Sinai
Stress, aging, and the role of redox in cell signaling and regulation
Fang Liu, Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP/CABM; Ph.D., Harvard
Growth and differentiation control
Leroy Liu, Professor of Pharmacology; UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Cancer biology, cancer pharmacology, DNA conformation dynamics
Kiran Madura, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Rochester Mechanism and significance of ubiquitin-dependent degradation
of g-alpha
Pal Maliga, Professor of Genetics, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Genetics and molecular biology of plastids; RNA editing
Paul Manowitz, Professor of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Brandeis
Molecular biology and biochemistry of mental illness
Tara Matise, Associate Professor of Genetics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Computational genetics
Fumio Matsumura, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Nagoya
Molecular cell biology of cell division
Richard Mendelsohn, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-N; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biophysical studies of membrane structure
Joachim W. Messing, University Professor of Molecular Biology, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Munich
Plant molecular biology
Gaetano T. Montelione, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Cornell
Protein NMR spectroscopy, molecular recognition, rational drug design, structural bioinformatics
N. Ronald Morris, Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Yale
Molecular biology of microtubules and mitosis
Lenore Neigeborn, Lecturer in Life Sciences, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Columbia
Control of gene expression in yeast
Robert A. Niederman, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
FAS-NB; D.V.M., Ph.D., Illinois Structure, function, and assembly of photosynthetic membranes
David N. Norris, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Genetic recombination, meiosis, and check point regulation
Wilma Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Stanford
Relation of structure, conformation, and function in nucleic acids
Richard Padgett, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
TGF-beta signal transduction in C. elegans and Drosophila
Garth
Patterson, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
FAS-NB; Ph.D., Oregon Development, signal transduction, genetics, gene
expression, aging
Stuart Peltz, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Eukaryote gene expression
Sidney Pestka, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; M.D., Pennsylvania
Natural interferons: genes, receptors
George Pieczenik, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, CC; Ph.D., New York
Evolutionary paradigms for molecular information
John Pintar, Professor of Neuroscience, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Oregon
Molecular analysis of gene expression during mammalian development
Ronald D. Poretz, Professor of Biochemistry, CC; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Inherited susceptibility to neurotoxicants and intracellular targeting of pharmaceuticals
Carl A. Price, Professor Emeritus of Plant Biochemistry, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Harvard
Molecular biology of plastids
Arnold Rabson, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Brown
Molecular biology of human retroviruses; gene regulation in human cancer
Joe Ramos, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience,
FAS-NB; Ph.D., Virginia Cell signaling, cell adhesion, and cancer
Danny F. Reinberg, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Albert Einstein
Mechanisms that control the regulation of gene expression in higher eukaryotes
Charles Roth, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware Molecular bioengineering, inflammatory
diseases, applied bioinformatics
Monica Roth, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Albert Einstein
Genetics and biochemistry of murine leukemia virus
Carl P. Schaffner, Professor Emeritus of Biology, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Illinois
Antibiotic chemistry and biology; prostatic cholesterogenesis
Konstantin Severinov, Associate Professor of Genetics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences
Structure and function of RNA polymerases from eubacteria and yeasts
Aaron Shatkin, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; University Professor of Molecular Biology, Rutgers;
Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine; Ph.D.,
Rockefeller
Eukaryotic gene expression; viral cytopathogenesis
Michael M. Shen, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CABM; Ph.D., Cambridge
Growth factor signaling and pattern formation in mouse embryogenesis; prostate development and cancer
Steven Shiff, Associate Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Role of diet and nutrition in prevention of chronic disease
Navin K. Sinha, Associate Professor of Biology, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Minnesota
Accuracy of DNA replication; chemical carcinogenesis
William Sofer, Professor of Genetics, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Miami
Prediction of secondary structure of proteins using genetic algorithms
Ruth Steward, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Basel
Nuclear migration, RNA localization, and patterning in Drosophila
Ann Stock, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CABM; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Structure and function of signal transduction proteins
Kevin S. Sweder, Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Mechanisms of DNA repair; transcription-coupled repair; translesion synthesis
Mark Takahashi, Associate Professor of Physiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Cytokine signal transduction pathways; apoptosis in epithelial cells
T.J. Thomas, Associate Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science
Development of gene-targeted strategies for breast cancer treatment
Chih-Cheng Tsai, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Transcriptional regulation, nuclear receptor corepressors, Drosophila development
Lynn D. Vales, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Transcriptional regulation of gene expression
Theodorus van Es, Professor of Biochemistry, CC; Ph.D., Witwatersrand
Carbohydrate chemistry; nonimmunogenic enzymes; quinoline chemistry
Andrew K. Vershon, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, WIM/FAS-NB; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Structure/function of yeast transcriptional regulatory proteins
Nancy Walworth, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Yale
Regulation of cell cycle progression in eukaryotic cells
William W. Ward, Professor of Biochemistry, CC; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Bioluminescence mechanisms; protein and peptide biochemistry
Eileen White, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, FAS-NB/CABM; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Programmed cell death
Lori White, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, CC; Ph.D., Dartmouth
Molecular mechanisms of xenobiotic-induced pathologies
Donald Winkelmann, Associate Professor of Pathology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Macromolecular structure and assembly mechanisms of muscular contraction
Chung S. Yang, Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Cornell
Molecular mechanisms of esophageal carcinogenesis and its prevention; genetic polymorphism and cancer risk
Guofeng You, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Clark
Molecular and cellular pharmacology, drug/toxin elimination
Peter D. Yurchenco, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Molecular basis of basement membrane structure and function; receptor-mediated cell-matrix interactions
Barbara A. Zilinskas, Professor of Plant Biochemistry, CC; Ph.D., Illinois
Oxidative stress in plants and microorganisms; plant molecular biology and biochemistry
Gerben Zylstra, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology, BCAE/CC; Ph.D., Michigan
Microbial genomics; high throughput screening; molecular analysis of biodegradation pathways
