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)

Members of the Graduate Faculty in the Pharmaceutical Science

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 of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy; 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, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Michigan Neuroimmunology of central nervous system injuries

Gregory T. Knipp, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Kansas Drug transport and delivery

Joachim Kohn, Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Weizmann Institute 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

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

Andrew S. Mathis, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, EMSP; PharmD., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science Cardiovascular and thrombotic diseases; transplantation; pharmacogenetics

Bozena Michniak, Laboratory for Drug Delivery, New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Newark; Ph.D., Leicester Polytechnic Topical and transdermal drug delivery

Tamara Minko, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Ukrainian Academy of Science

Patrick J. Sinko, Chairperson 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; PharmD., Kentucky Pharmacokinetics; drug metabolism, 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, Assistant 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, Associate Professor of Chemistry, FAS-NB; 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, Chairperson and Professor of Pharmacognosy, EMSP; Ph.D., Cornell Carcinogenesis, chemoprevention and pharmacokinetic and bioavailability studies

Guofeng You, Associate 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