Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Program: Professor Longqin Hu, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, William Levine Hall, Busch Campus (848-445-5291)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Edward Arnold, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Antiviral drug design; molecular recognition; X-ray crystallography
Chi-Tang
Ho, Professor of Food Science, SEBS; Ph.D., Washington (St. Louis)
Separation and
structural elucidation of bioactive compounds in food, spices, and
herbs
Longqin Hu, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, EMSP; Ph.D., Kansas
Design and synthesis of enzyme
inhibitors and peptidomimetics; prodrugs; inhibition of protein-protein interactions
Leslie Jimenez,
Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Natural product synthesis and new synthetic methodology
John
E. Kerrigan, Associate Director,
Bioinformatics Cancer Informatics Core, CINJ;
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Serine protease inhibitors;
molecular modeling; computational chemistry
Edmund J.
LaVoie, Chair and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, EMSP; Ph.D.,
SUNY (Buffalo)
Synthesis and structure-activity studies of
pharmacological agents
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
James E. Simon,
Professor of New Use Agriculture, SEBS; Ph.D., Massachusetts (Amherst)
Plant-derived natural products with medicinal activity
William E. Welsh, Professor of Pharmacology and Director, Informatics Institute, RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Computer-aided molecular modeling and design; bioinformatics; chemoinformatics
Lawrence
J. Williams, Associate Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Arizona
Total synthesis of biologically active natural products and new
synthetic methodology
Xumu Zhang, Professor of Chemistry
and Medicinal Chemistry, EMSP, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Synthetic
organic medicinal chemistry; asymmetric reactions
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
S. David Kimball, Research Professor of
Medicinal Chemistry, EMSP; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Synthetic medicinal chemistry
Qing-Li Wu, Assistant Research Professor of Plant Biology,
SEBS; Ph.D., Peking Union Medical College
Natural products
isolation and structural characterization
