Director of Graduate Program: Professor
Marc Gartenberg, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
(732-235-2016)
Members of the Graduate Faculty
Debabrata Banerjee, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Calcutta Cancer pharmacology; antifolate research
Joseph Bertino, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, RWJMS/CINJ; M.D.,
Downstate Medical Center Cancer pharmacology; antifolate research
Gary Brewer, Professor
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 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
Darren Carpizo,
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Surgery, RWJMS/CINJ; M.D., Illinois (Chicago); Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
p53 targeted drug development and hedgehog signaling in pancreatic cancer
J. Don Chen, Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Baylor
Gene regulation by nuclear hormone receptors; leukemia
Zhaohui Feng, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Zhejiang (China) P53; tumor suppressor; tumorigenesis; apoptosis; transcription
regulation
Bonnie Firestein, Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., California (San Diego) Targeting of neuronal proteins
Joseph Fondell, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Rockefeller Regulation by nuclear hormone
receptors
Shridar Ganesan, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Yale
DNA repair; chromatin structure; breast cancer biology
Marc R. Gartenberg, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Yale Sister chromatid cohesion; gene expression; chromatin and epigenetics
Celine
Gelinas, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Sherbrooke
(Canada) Cancer; oncogenes; transcription factors; cell proliferation;
apoptosis
Kim Marie Hirschfield, Assistant Professor of Medicine, RWJMS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Association of polymorphisms and their molecular function in breast cancer
Wenwei Hu, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Zhejiang (China) p53; tumor suppressor;
stress response; apoptosis; single nucleotide polymorphism; microRNA;
tumor; development and reproduction
Masayori Inouye, Distinguished Professor, Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Osaka Propeptide-mediated protein folding
Shengkan (Victor) Jin, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Cornell Tumor suppressor genes, programmed cell
death, and tumorigenesis
Vassiliki Karantza, Assistant Professor of Medicine, RWJMS/CINJ; M.D., UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Breast cancer progression and treatment; autophagy; apoptosis, beclin1
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, RWJMS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo) Carcinogenesis and differentiation
in cell culture
Edmund Lattime, Professor of Surgery, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., Rutgers Tumor immunology; immune mechanisms; genetically-based vaccine strategies
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, RWJMS;
Ph.D., California (Berkeley) DNA topoisomerases and control of cell
division; cancer pharmacology
Peter Lobel, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Columbia
Molecular mechanisms responsible for targeting lysosome in mammalian cells
Chi-Wei Lu, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., UMDNJ Stem cell regulation and function
Jianjie Ma, Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Baylor
Structure-function studies of ion channels; signal transduction
Randall D. McKinnon, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, 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
Prabhas V. Moghe, Professor of Biomedical, Chemical, and
Biochemical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Minnesota Matrix microarchitecture; tissue engineering;
cell-biomaterials interactions; stem cells
Robert G. Nagele, Professor of Pediatrics, Rowan-School of Osteopathic Medicine; Ph.D.,
Rutgers Structural/functional organization of the cell nucleus
Vikas
Nanda, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Protein
evolution and folding; computational de novo design of proteins and
biomimetics
Daniel S. Pilch, Professor of
Pharmacology, 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, RWJMS; Ph.D., UMDNJ 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
Monica Roth, Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Einstein Retroviruses: integration, reverse transcriptase, envelope proteins, gene therapy, targeted entry, structural studies
Loren W. Runnels, Associate Professor of
Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook) Signal
transduction; role of the channel-kinase TRPM7 in cell adhesion
Alexey G. Ryazanov, Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS;
D.Sci., Moscow State Regulation of protein synthesis and the cell cycle
Hatem E. Sabaawy, Assistant Professor of Medicine, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., New York Medical Stem cell plasticity and tumor-initiating cells using zebrafish models
Kathleen W. Scotto, Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS;
Ph.D., Cornell Transcriptional regulation of P-glycoprotein (MDR/mdr)
gene
Federico Sesti, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Genova
Physiology, structure, function, and genetic disease of ion channels
Zhiyuan Shen, Professor of Radiation Oncology and
Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Colorado State Genomic stability; DNA damage repair; cancer biology and etiology
Yufang Shi, Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Toronto Apoptosis in lymphocytes; immune regulation; psychoneuroimmunology and bone-lymphocyte connection
Patricia K. Sonsalla, Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D., Utah Neurotoxicology; monoamines and CNS function
Nanjoo Suh, Associate Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D., Illinois (Chicago) Mechanistic study of cancer prevention and inflammation; natural/synthetic agents
Nancy C. Walworth, Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS;
Ph.D., Yale Control of cell cycle progression in yeast
William J. Welsh,
Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS, and Director of the Cheminformatics, Biomedical Informatics Shared Resource, CINJ; 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, RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Royal Postgraduate Medical School (London) Endocrinology and metabolism
Long-Jun Wu, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS; Ph.D., University of Science and Technology of China Microglia-neuron communication in normal and diseased brains
Bing Xia, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, RWJMS/CINJ; Ph.D., UMDNJ DNA repair; homologous recombination; breast cancer; Fanconi anemia
Ping Xie, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, SAS/CINJ; Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Molecular mechanisms of immune regulation and cancer pathogenesis
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, RWJMS; M.D., Albert Einstein Extracellular matrix
X.F. Steven Zheng, Professor of Pharmacology, RWJMS; Ph.D.,
Harvard Growth control; signal transduction; cancer; chemical genetics and
genomics; drug discovery
Renping Zhou, Professor of Chemical Biology, EMSP; Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley) Molecular mechanisms of neural development
