Director of Graduate Program: Professor
Marc Gartenberg, Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
(732-235-4757)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Debabrata Banerjee, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Calcutta Cancer pharmacology; antifolate research
Joseph Bertino, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; M.D.,
Downstate Medical Center Cancer pharmacology; antifolate research
Gary Brewer, Professor
of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology, UMDNJ-RWJMS;
Ph.D., Vanderbilt Posttranscriptional control of gene expression in
cancer and immune responses
Li
Cai, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., UMDNJ Physiology;
neural stem cell research in developing retina
J. Don Chen, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Baylor
Gene regulation by nuclear hormone receptors; leukemia
Xiaoxin Chen, Assistant Research Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP;
Ph.D., Rutgers Molecular mechanisms and prevention of esophageal
adenocarcinoma and oral cancer
Peter Cole, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Cornell Cancer pharmacology; antifolate
research
Allan H. Conney, Professor of Pharmacology, EMSP; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Cytochromes P-450 and drug metabolism; chemical carcinogenesis
Zhaohui Feng, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Zhejiang (China) P53; tumor suppressor; tumorigenesis; apoptosis; transcription
regulation
Joseph Fondell, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rockefeller Regulation by nuclear hormone
receptors
Shridar Ganesan, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale
DNA repair; chromatin structure; breast cancer biology
Marc R. Gartenberg, Associate Professor of
Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Yale Sister chromatid cohesion; gene expression; chromatin and epigenetics
Celine Gelinas, Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Sherbrooke (Canada) Cancer; oncogenes; transcription factors; cell proliferation;
apoptosis
John W. Glod, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Colorado
Wenwei Hu, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Zhejiang (China)
p53; tumor suppressor; stress response; apoptosis; single nucleotide polymorphism; microRNA; tumor; development and reproduction entry for Wenwei Hu from Cell and Developmental Biology
Masayori Inouye, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Osaka Propeptide-mediated protein folding
Shengkan (Victor) Jin, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Cornell Tumor suppressor genes, programmed cell
death, and tumorigenesis
Vassiliki Karantza-Wadsworth, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; M.D., UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Breast cancer progression and treatment; autophagy; apoptosis, beclin1
Frederick C. Kauffman, Professor of Pharmacology, EMSP; Ph.D., Illinois
Influence of intermediary metabolism on xenobiotic metabolism; neurotoxicity
Ah-Ng Tony Kong, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Regulation of gene expression by drugs and xenobiotics; signal transduction and apoptosis
Jeffrey D. Laskin, Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo) Carcinogenesis and differentiation
in cell culture
John Lenard, Professor of Physiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Cornell
Enveloped RNA viruses; transcription, replication, entry, and assembly
Fang Liu, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Harvard Signal transduction and gene regulation; growth and differentiation
control
Leroy F. Liu, Professor and Chair of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS;
Ph.D., California (Berkeley) DNA topoisomerases and control of cell
division; cancer pharmacology
Peter Lobel, Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Columbia
Molecular mechanisms responsible for targeting lysosome in mammalian cells
Jianjie Ma, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Baylor
Structure-function studies of ion channels; signal transduction
Randall D. McKinnon, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS;
Ph.D., McMaster (Canada) Role of polypeptide growth factors in
oligodendrocyte development
Audrey Minden, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP;
Ph.D., Chicago Cancer cell biology; signal transduction; mammalian development
Robert G. Nagele, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-SOM; Ph.D.,
Rutgers Structural/functional organization of the cell nucleus
Vikas
Nanda, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Protein
evolution and folding; computational de novo design of proteins and
biomimetics
Daniel S. Pilch, Assistant Professor of
Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Mechanism of
action of topoisomerase poisoning drugs; structure and energetics of
specific RNA recognition by drugs and proteins
Sharon R. Pine, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Lung and breast cancer cell self-renewal; chemokine signaling; tumor microenvironment
Larissa A. Pohorecky, Professor of Neuropharmacology, CAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Alcohol and psychological stress on brain monoamines and behavior
Michael
Reiss, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Amsterdam Human genetics; nervous system traits and
diseases; linkage mapping; genomic markers; microsatellite
polymorphisms; positional cloning
Loren W. Runnels, Assistant Professor of
Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook) Signal
transduction; role of the channel-kinase TRPM7 in cell adhesion
Alexey G. Ryazanov, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS;
D.Sci., Moscow State Regulation of protein synthesis and the cell cycle
Hatem E. Sabaawy, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., New York Medical Stem cell plasticity and tumor initiating cells using zebrafish models
Kathleen W. Scotto, Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS;
Ph.D., Cornell Transcriptional regulation of P-glycoprotein (MDR/mdr)
gene
Federico Sesti, Assistant Professor of Physiology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Genova
Physiology, structure, function, and genetic disease of ion channels
Zhiyuan Shen, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and
Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Colorado State Genomic stability; DNA damage repair; cancer biology and etiology
Yufang Shi, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Toronto
Tetsuo Shimamura, Professor of Pathology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Yokohama (Japan)
Structure and function of the renal medulla; urine-concentrating mechanisms
Patricia K. Sonsalla, Associate Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Utah Neurotoxicology; monoamines and CNS function
Vasily Studitsky, Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., W.
Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (Moscow) DNA transcription
through chromatin
Nancy C. Walworth, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS;
Ph.D., Yale Control of cell cycle progression in yeast
William J. Welsh,
Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the UMDNJ Informatics
Institute, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania Drug discovery;
computer-aided molecular modeling and design; bioinformatics
Guy
Werlen, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS;
Ph.D., Geneva Signaling networks and mechanisms that control life and
death of developing T lymphocytes
Sunil Jayalath Wimalawansa, Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Royal Postgraduate Medical School (London) Endocrinology and metabolism
Donald J. Wolff, Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Pharmacology of nitric oxide synthesis; calcium/calmodulin dependent processes
Bing Xia, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, UMDNJ-RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., UMDNJ DNA repair; homologous recombination; breast cancer; Fanconi anemia
Chung S. Yang, Professor of Pharmacognosy, EMSP; Ph.D.,
Cornell Nitrosamines; carcinogenesis; molecular biology of cytochrome
P-4507
Guofeng You, Professor of Pharmacology, EMSP; Ph.D., Harvard Drug transporters in human diseases
Peter D. Yurchenco, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., Albert Einstein Extracellular matrix
Huaye Zhang, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology,
UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Virginia
Molecular mechanisms of dendritic spine morphogenesis and synaptic plasticity
X.F. Steven Zheng, Professor of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Harvard Growth control; signal transduction; cancer; chemical genetics and
genomics; drug discovery
Renping Zhou, Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley) Molecular mechanisms of neural development
