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Faculty

Debabrata Banerjee, Associate Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology and CINJ
Experimental therapeutics. drug resistance. molecular imaging. mesenchymal stem cells

Joseph Bertino, Professor – RWJMS Medicine and Pharmacology and CINJ
Cancer pharmacology, antifolate research

Gary Brewer, Professor – RWJMS Molecular Genetics, Micro and Immunology
Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in cancer. immune responses. and congestive heart failure

Li Cai, Assistant Professor – Rutgers Biomedical Engineering
Regulation of gene expression in stem cells

Peter Cole, Assistant Professor – RWJMS Medicine and Pharmacology and CINJ
Cancer pharmacology, antifolate research

J. Don Chen, University Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology|
Gene regulation by nuclear hormone receptors. Molecular genetics of acute promyelocytic leukemia

Xiaoxin Chen, Assistant Research Professor – Rutgers Chemical Biology

Zhaohui Feng, Assistant Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology, Radiation Oncology and CINJ|
p53, tumor suppression, energy metabolism and aging

Bonnie Firestein, Associate Professor – Rutgers Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Targeting of Neuronal Proteins

Joseph Fondell, Associate Professor –RWJMS Physiology
Regulation of gene expression by nuclear hormone receptors. Pathological role of nuclear receptors in hormone dependent cancers

Shridar Ganesan, Assistant Professor, RWJMS Pharmcology and CINJ
Breast cancer biology; genomics & molecular oncology; bioinformatics; DNA Repair; Chromatin structure

Marc Gartenberg, Professor and Graduate Program Director – RWJMS Pharmacology
Sister chromatid cohesion. gene expression. chromatin and epigenetics

Celine Gelinas, Professor – RWJMS Biochemistry and CABM
Cancer. oncogenes. transcription factors. cell proliferation. Apoptosis

John Glod, Assistant Professor - RWJMS Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and CINJ
Pediatric head and neck cancers

Shengkan (Victor) Jin, Associate Professor – RWJMS Pharmcology
Autophagy in cancer biology, cancer therapy, and aging control

Ah-Ng Tony Kong, Professor – Rutgers Pharmaceutics
Regulation of gene expression by drugs and xenobiotics; signal transduction and apoptosis

Jeffrey D. Laskin, Professor – RWJMS Environmental and Community Medicine and EOHSI
Carcinogenesis and differentiation in cell culture

Edmund Lattime, Professor – RWJMS Surgery
Tumor immunology, immune mechanisms, genetically-based vaccine strategies

Fang Liu, Associate Professor – Rutgers Chemical Biology
Signal transduction and gene regulation. growth and differentiation control

Leroy Liu, Professor and Chairman – RWJMS Pharmacology
Tumorigenesis. Topoisomerases. telomere regulation and senescence. DNA damage and repair.

Peter Lobel, Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology and CABM
Hereditary neurodegenerative diseases. functional genomics. lysosomes. protein targeting

Chi-Wei Lu, Assistant Professor – RWJMS Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences

Jianjie Ma, Professor – RWJMS Physiology and Biophysics
Structure-function studies of ion channels, transgenic animal models of cardiovascular research, signal transduction in cancer biology curing cancer, sexually transmitted disease

Randall D. McKinnon, Associate Professor – RWJMS Surgery
Developmental neurobiology. neuroncology. growth factors

Audrey Minden, Associate Professor – Rutgers Chemical Biology
Cancer cell biology, signal transduction, mammalian development

Robert Nagele, Professor – SOM Molecular Biology

Vikas Nanda, Assistant Professor – RWJMS Biochemistry and CABM
Protein evolution and folding, computational de novo design of proteins and biomimetics

Daniel Pilch, Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology
Development of topoisomerase I-directed anticancer drugs, investigations of the structure and energetics of drug-RNA interactions

Larissa Poherecky, Professor – Rutgers Center for Alcohol Studies

Michael Reiss, Professor - RWJMS Medicine
Role of transforming growth factor-ß(TGFß) in human cancer, targeting TGFß signaling as cancer therapy

Monica Roth, Professor – RWJMS Biochemistry
Retroviruses: integration, reverse transcriptase, envelope proteins, gene therapy, targeted entry, structural studies

Loren Runnels, Assistant Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology
Signal transduction, role of the channel-kinase TRPM7 in cell adhesion and motility, live cell imaging, confocal microscopy, biochemistry, electrophysiology

Alexey G. Ryazanov, Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology
Novel protein kinases and signal transduction

Hatem Sabaawy, RWJMS Medicine and CINJ

Kathleen Scotto, Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology

Federico Sesti, Associate Professor - RWJMS Physiology and Biophysics
Physiology, structure and function of potassium channels, role of potassium channels in causing disease

Zhiyuan Shen, Associate Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology and CINJ
Genomic stability and molecular cancer etiology, DNA repair and homologous recombination, Modulation of cell response to therapeutic DNA damage

Yufang Shi, Professor – RWJMS Molecular Genetics, Micro and Immunology
Apoptosis in lymphocytes,immune regulation, psychoneuroimmunology, and bone-lymphocyte connection

Patricia Sonsalla, Professor –  RWJMS Neurology
Neurodegeneration, models of Parkinson's Disease, mechanisms of cell death, synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitter transporters as modulators of neurotoxin damage

Vasily Studitsky, Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology
Transcription regulation; chromatin remodeling; mechanisms of enhancer and insulator action

Nanjoo Suh, Associate Professor – Rutgers Chemical Biology
Mechanistic study of cancer prevention & inflammation-natural/synthetic agents

Nancy C. Walworth, Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology
Cell cycle checkpoint control in response to DNA damage

William Welsh, Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology
Drug discovery, computer-aided molecular modeling and design, bioinformatics and cheminformatics

Guy Werlen, Associate Professor – Rutgers Cell biology and Neuroscience
Signaling networks & mechanisms that control life and death of developing T lymphocytes

Sunil Wimalawansa, Professor – RWJMS Endocrinology

Donald J. Wolff, Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology
Nitric oxide has been identified as a secretory product mediating diverse functions in mammalian system including regulation of blood pressure and flow, as a mediator of many of the actions of the neurotransmitter glutamate in the central nervous system, and as a cytoxic mediator of macrophages involved in killing pathogenic organisms.

Bing Xia, Assistant Professor – RWJMS Radiation Oncology and CINJ
DNA repair, homologous recombination, breast cancer, Fanconi anemia

Chung S. Yang, Professor – Rutgers Chemical Biology
Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and its prevention

Guofeng You, Professor – Rutgers Pharmaceutics
Molecular and cellular pharmacology, drug/toxin elimination, transporter

Peter D. Yurchenco, Professor – RWJMS Pathology
Assembly, structure and function of basement membranes

X.F. Steven Zheng, Universtiy Professor – RWJMS Pharmacology
Growth control, signal transduction, cancer, chemical genetics and genomics, drug discovery

Renping Zhou, Professor – Rutgers Chemical Biology
Molecular biology of axonal guidance and neural map formation