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)

Website: http://medchem.rutgers.edu/gpmc.shtml

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, Biomedical Informatics, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; 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, 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 

David Augeri, Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, EMSP; Ph.D., California (Irvine)
Synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry of bioactive compounds

Qing-Li Wu, Assistant Research Professor of Plant Biology, SEBS; Ph.D., Peking Union Medical College
Natural products isolation and structural characterization