Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Joseph E. Rice, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, William Levine Hall, Busch Campus (732/445-5381)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Edward Arnold, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB, Ph.D., Cornell Antiviral
drug design, molecular recognition, X-ray crystallography
Chi-Tang Ho, Professor of Food Science, CC; Ph.D., Washington,
Separation and structural elucidation of bioactive compounds in food,
spices, and herbs
Lonquin Hu, Assistant Professor of Medicinal
Chemistry, EMSP; Ph.D., Kansas Design and synthesis of enzyme
inhibitors and peptidomimetics, prodrugs
Leslie Jimenez,
Associate Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., California (Los
Angeles) Natural product synthesis and new synthetic methodology
John E. Kerrigan, Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology Serine protease
inhibitors, molecular modeling, and computational chemistry
Edmund J. LaVoie, Chairperson and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry,
EMSP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo) Synthesis and structure-activity studies of
pharmacological agents
Thomas Medwick, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, EMSP; Ph.D., Wisconsin Pharmaceutical analysis
Joseph E., Rice, Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, EMSP;
Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of New York Synthetic organic chemistry as
applied to problems of biological interest
Robert T. Rosen, Associate Director, CAFT, CC; Ph.D., Rutgers Analytical and natural products chemistry
James E. Simon, Professor of New Use Agriculture, CC; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts (Amherst) Plant-derived natural products with medicinal
activity
William E. Welsh, Professor of Pharmacology and Director, UMDNJ Informatics Institute, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Computer-aided molecular modeling and design, bioinformatics, chemoinformatics
Lawrence J. Williams, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D.,
Arizona Total synthesis of biologically active natural products and new
synthetic methodology
Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty
S. David Kimball, Senior Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Lexicon
Pharmaceuticals; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook) Inhibition of
cyclin-dependent kinases; discovery of mechanism-based anticancer drugs
