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 (848-445-6369)                        

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Edward Arnold, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS/CABM; Ph.D., Cornell
Protein and virus structure; crystallography; AIDS; polymerases; drug and vaccine design

Suzie Chen, Professor of Chemical Biology and Pharmacognosy, EMSP; Ph.D., Albert Einstein
Transgenic mice predisposed to melanoma development; molecular merchant of dipocyte differentiation; uv-inducible genes

John L. Colaizzi, University Professor of Pharmacy and Dean Emeritus, EMSP; Ph.D., Purdue
Applied pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics

Ronald Hart, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Neuroimmunology of central nervous system injuries

Arash Hatefi, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Alberta
Design and development of advanced multifunctional and targeted systems for nucleic acid delivery; nanomedicine

Leonid Kagan, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Hebrew
Biopharmaceutics; therapeutic proteins; PK/PD modeling; pain mechanisms

Joachim Kohn, Director, NJ Biomaterials and Devices Center and Professor II of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Weizmann (Israel)
Tissue engineering and biomaterials; development of new degradable polymers

Ah-Ng Tony Kong, Glaxo Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Pharmacokinetics; pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenomics; cancer-preventive dietary phytochemicals

Fang Liu, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Harvard
Signal transduction and gene regulation; growth and differentiation control

Bozena Michniak-Kohn, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Leicester Polytechnic
Topical and transdermal drug delivery

Audrey Minden, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Role for protein kinases in the regulation of cell growth and proliferation

Tamara Minko, Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Ukrainian Academy of Science
Drug delivery; biopharmaceutics; cancer pharmacology

Patrick J. Sinko, Associate Vice President for Research and Park Davis Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Michigan
Biopharmaceutics; intestinal absorption mechanism; peptide drug analogs and anti-HIV drug metabolism

Marc G. Sturgill, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, EMSP; Pharm.D., Kentucky
Pharmacokinetics; drug metabolism; pediatrics

Nanjoo Suh, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago)
Chemoprevention of cancer by nuclear receptor ligands, triterpenoids, and TGF-beta

Jay Tischfield, Professor and Chair of Genetics, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Medical and human genetics; the genetics of somatic cells; mouse models for human diseases; genes for complex human genetic disorders

Kathryn Uhrich, Area Dean and Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Design, synthesis, and characterization of novel organic polymers for medicinal use

William E. Welsh, University Professor of Pharmacology and Director, Informatics Institute, RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Computer-aided molecular modeling and design; bioinformatics; cheminformatics

Chung S. Yang, Professor and John Colaizzi Endowed Chair of Chemical Biology and Pharmacognosy, EMSP; Ph.D., Cornell
Carcinogenesis; chemoprevention; pharmacokinetic and bioavailability studies

Guofeng You, Professor of Pharmaceutics, EMSP; Ph.D., Clark
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of drug transport

Renping Zhou, Chair and 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 Cuitiņo, Professor and Chair 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