Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Codirector of Graduate Program: Professor Ronald M. Levy, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (732-445-3947)

Codirector of Graduate Program: Professor Wilma K. Olson, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (732-445-3993)

Associate Director of Graduate Education: Dr. Daniel Weinstock, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (732-445-3278)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Ioannis Androulakis, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D, Purdue Bioinformatics; systems engineering

Edward Arnold, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS-CABM/CINJ; Ph.D., Cornell Crystallographic studies of human viruses and viral proteins

David E. Axelrod, Professor of Genetics, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Tennessee
Cellular and molecular oncology; tumor-cell proliferation

Jean S. Baum, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Structural studies of proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques

Helen M. Berman, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Pittsburgh
X-ray crystallographic and molecular modeling studies of biological molecules

Gyan Bhanot, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/CINJ/IAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Computational biology of cancer; evolutionary genetics; advanced pattern recognition techniques

Kenneth J. Breslauer, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale Biopolymer structures and drug-nucleic acid interactions

David A. Case, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Computational aspects of biomolecular NMR; electrostatic interactions in proteins and nucleic acids; electronic structure

Kevin Chen, Assistant Professor of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

MicroRNAs and RNA binding proteins; evolution of gene regulation

Bernard D. Coleman, Professor of Mechanical and Materials Science, SE; Ph.D., Yale
Continuum mechanics; analysis

Monica A. Driscoll, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Harvard
C. elegans developmental genetics; molecular mechanisms of inherited neurodegeneration

Richard Ebright, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/WIM/CINJ; Ph.D., Harvard
Protein-DNA interaction; protein engineering; regulation of gene expression

Martin Farach-Colton, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; M.D., Johns Hopkins; Ph.D., Maryland
Computational biology; design and analysis of algorithms

Marc R. Gartenberg, Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale
Nuclear organization of DNA; chromosome structure; yeast plasmid segregation

Jody Hey, Professor of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Evolution; speciation; human origins; recombination; natural selection; codon bias

Tomasz Imielinski, Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences
Mobile wireless computing; data mining

Lev B. Ioffe, Professor of Physics, SAS; Ph.D., Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics (Russia)
Condensed-matter theory

Kenneth D. Irvine, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/WIM/CINJ; Ph.D., Stanford
Cell signaling and growth control during Drosophila development

Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Ioannina (Greece) and Institute Curie (France)
Structural and mechanistic biology; protein dynamics and allostery

Casimir Kulikowski, Board of Governors Professor of Computer Science, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Hawaii
Artificial intelligence; pattern recognition; imaging; biomedical applications

Joel Lebowitz, George William Hill Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center for Mathematical Sciences Research; Professor of Physics, SAS; Ph.D., Syracuse
Mathematical physics; statistical mechanics

Jeehiun Katherine Lee, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Biological and organic reactivity, recognition, and catalysis; computational chemistry; mass spectrometry

Arnold J. Levine, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Pediatrics, RWJMS-UMDNJ/CINJ; Ph.D. Pennsylvania
Systems and computational biology; cancer; infectious diseases

Ronald M. Levy, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Biophysical chemistry, structure, and dynamics of macromolecules; chemical physics

Joachim Messing, University Professor of Molecular Biology and Director, Waksman Institute, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Munich (Germany)
Molecular biology of higher plants; M13 cloning, sequencing, and gene synthesis

Dimitri Metaxas, Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto
Physics-based modeling; computer graphics and animation; computational vision; medical imaging

Konstantin M. Mischaikow, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Mathematical biology; topological methods for the analysis of dynamical systems 

Prabhas V. Moghe, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Minnesota
Bioengineering and microarchitecture of polymeric tissue analogs; cell-biomaterial interactions; tissue engineering of liver, skin, and blood vessels; fluid flow and "cellular stress engineering"; quantitative 3-D reconstructive confocal microscopy

Gaetano T. Montelione, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/CABM/CINJ; Ph.D., Cornell
Protein NMR spectroscopy; molecular recognition; rational drug design; structural bioinformatics

Alexandre V. Morozov, Assistant Professor of Physics, SAS; Ph.D., Washington
Computational structural biology and bioinformatics; macromolecular simulations; transcriptional regulation

Vikas Nanda, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, RWJMS-UMDNJ/CABM; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Protein design; protein evolution; protein simulations; biomimetics; biomaterials

Wilma K. Olson, Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Stanford
Theoretical studies of nucleic acid structure and properties

Richard W. Padgett, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/WIM/CINJ; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Molecular genetics of development in Drosophila and C. elegans

Smita Patel, Professor of Biochemsitry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Tufts
Structure-function and dynamics of enzyme-catalyzed processes involved in genome replication and transcription

Vladimir Pavlovic, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
Applied machine learning and probabilistic inference; bioinformatics; computer vision; human-computer interaction

Vincent Pirrotta, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard 
Chromatin structure and dynamics; polycomb silencing mechanisms; epigenetic mechanisms; developmental gene regulation; genomic programming; Drosophila genetics

Arnold B. Rabson, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology and Professor of Pathology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CABM; Deputy Director, CINJ; Ph.D., Brown
HIV; HTLV-1; NF-kB; cancer; lymphomas; transcription; gene expression; oncogenesis

Fred Roberts, Professor of Mathematics, Director, DIMACS, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Discrete mathematical models; graph theory; decision making; measurement theory

Charles M. Roth, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Delaware
Molecular bioengineering; gene-based technologies; cell systems engineering

Alexander Schliep, Associate Professor of Computer Science, SAS; Ph.D., Cologne (Germany)
Bioinformatics and machine learning; gene regulation

Anirvan M. Sengupta, Professor of Physics, SAS; Ph.D., Tata Institute (India)
Information processing systems in cell biology; signal transduction networks and transcriptional circuits; statistical physics; signal processing and network analysis

Konstantin V. Severinov, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/WIM; Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences
Structure and function of RNA polymerases from eubacteria and yeasts

Lawrence Shepp, Professor of Statistics, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Pure and applied probability tomography

Troy Shinbrot, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Maryland
Computational bioengineering; biomedical imaging

Eduardo Sontag, Professor of Mathematics, SAS; Ph.D., Florida
System and control theory

Ruth Steward, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/WIM/CINJ; Ph.D., Basel (Switzerland)
Nuclear migration; RNA localization and patterning in Drosophila

Ann M. Stock, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CABM/CINJ; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Structure and function of signal transduction proteins 

Jay A. Tischfield, Professor of Genetics, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale
Gene regulation; human genetic diseases

Andrew K. Vershon, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SAS/WIM/CINJ; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Regulation of gene expression in yeast

Martin Yarmush, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Rockefeller; M.D., Yale
Tissue engineering; metabolic engineering; genomics and proteomics; stem cell bioengineering

Darrin M. York, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, SAS/SOE; Ph.D., Toronto
Molecular simulation and quantum chemistry methods in the study of RNA catalysis

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Emilio Gallicchio, Associate Director of the High Performance Computing Project, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia 
Protein modeling; thermodynamics of binding, association, and allostery; development of parallel and distributed computational chemistry algorithms

John Westbrook, Associate Research Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Databases for protein and nucleic acid structures

Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty

Gabriela Alexe, Computational Biologist, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Ph.D., Rutgers

C. Chris Huang, Principal Research Scientist, Centocor; Ph.D., Stony Brook

Sandor Szalma, Director, R&D Informatics, Centocor R&D, Inc.; Ph.D., Szent-Györgyi (Hungary)
Development of data mining algorithms for translational medicine