Faculty

J. Don Chen
University Professor
Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Phone: (732) 235-3292
E-mail: chenjd@umdnj.edu
Research interest: nuclear receptor signalling and coregulators, acute promyleocyitic leukemia.

Joseph Dougherty
Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Phone: (732) 235-4588
E-mail: doughejp@umdnj.edu
Research interest:  HIV-1 persistence, lentiviral vectors.

Huizhou Fan
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Manitoba
Phone: (732) 235-4607
Email: fanhu@umdnj.edu
Research interest: chlamydial biology, developoment of antiinfectives, regulation of protein ectodomain shedding.

Joseph Fondell
Associate Professor
Ph.D.
Phone: (732) 235-3348
Email: fondeljd@umdnj.edu

Shengkan (Victor) Jin
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University Weill Medical School
Phone: (732) 235-4329 / 6197
E-mail: jinsh@umdnj.ed
Research interests: autophagy, mitochondrial biology and mitophagy,  cellular energetics, metabolic disease prevention and treatment, cancer prevention and treatment, mouse genetic models.

Jerome A. Langer
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University (Molecular Biophysics &Biochemistry)
Phone: (732) 235-5224
E-mail: langer@umdnj.edu
Research interest: interferon; interferon receptors; lupus; protein design.

Honghua Li
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Phone: (732) 235-7330
E-mail: holi@umdnj.edu
Research interest: human genetics, genomics,immunogenetics, meiotic recombination, cancer genetics, genetic analysis with single sperm, gene     expression in single cells, genetic alteration and gene expression,genetic variation, high-throughput sequencing, high-throughput genotyping.

Leroy F. Liu
Professor
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Phone: (732) 235-4592
E-mail: lliu@umdnj.edu
Research interest: aging biology and aging-related diseases, cancer therapeutics, vaccine strategies.

Kiran Madura
Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Phone: (732) 235-5602
Email: maduraki@umdnj.edu
Research interest: ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis in signal transduction pathways in yeast.

Daniel S. Pilch
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Phone: (732) 235-3352
E-mail: pilchds@umdnj.edu
Research interest: antimicrobial and anticancer drug design and development, antibiotics, drug resistance, drug-maromolecule interactions, protein and nucleic acid structure and function, biothermodynamics, molecular-biophysics.

Arnold B. Rabson
Professor
M.D.
Phone: (732) 235-5368
E-mail: rabson@mbcl.rutgers.edu

Yacov Ron
Professor
Ph.D.
Phone: (732) 235-5284
E-mail: yron@umdnj.edu
Research interest: prevention and treatment of EAE by the induction of clonal anergy to encephalitogenic determinants of myelin basic protein (MBP). The developmental pathway of the myeloid system in mice.  B cell antigen presentation in vivo.

Monica Roth
Professor
Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Phone: (732) 235-5048
Email: roth@umdnj.edu
Research interest: retroviral entry, replication, and integration.

Loren W. Runnels
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Phone: (732) 235-459
E-mail: loren.runnels@umdnj.edu
Research interest: TRP channels, early development, cell survival, kidney disease.

Alexey G. Ryazanov
Professor
Ph.D., Moscow State University, Institute of Protein Research
Phone: (732) 235-5526
E-mail: ryazanag@umdnj.edu
Research interest: Alpha-kinases, channel-kinases and cell signaling.

Kathleen Scotto
Professor
Ph.D.
Phone: (732) 235-4812
E-mail: scottoka@umdnj.edu
Research interest:  Research targeting the regulation of expression of drug resistance genes in human tumors.

Yufang Shi
Professor
Ph.D.
Phone: (732) 235-4501
E-mail: shiyu@umdnj.edu

Nancy C. Walworth
Professor and Acting Chair
Ph.D., Yale University
Phone: (732) 235-5661
E-mail: walworna@umdnj.edu
Research interest: cell cycle checkpoints, genome stability, fission yeast chromatin.

William J. Welsh
Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Phone: (732) 235-3234
E-mail: welshwj@umdnj.edu
Research interest: computational chemistry, drug design, predictive toxicology, pattern recognition, bioinformatics, cheminformatics.

X.F. Steven Zheng
University Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Phone: (732) 235-2894
E-mail: zhengst@umdnj.edu
Research interest: mTOR, signal transduction, cancer, growth regulation, drug discover.

N. Ronald Morris, M.D.
Phone: (732) 235-4081
E-mail: morrisnr@umdnj.edu

Maxim Dorovkov, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Phone: (732) 235-3236
Email: dorovkma@umdnj.edu

Murugesan K. Gounder, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Phone: (732) 235-7211
Email: goundemk@umdnj.edu
Research Interests: clinical and preclinical pharmacokinetics
of drugs, drug discovery, preclinical drug toxicity and efficacy.

Lisa Y. Lyu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (732) 235-5483
Email: lyuyi@umdnj.edu

Lee Ann Schein, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers University and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Phone: (732) 235-3446
Email: scheinla@umdnj.edu
Research Interests: medical education.

Jia Shi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (732) 235-4012
Email: shiji@umdnj.edu

Chi-Kwan Tsang, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Phone: (732) 235-5638
Email: tsangch@umdnj.ed
Research Interests: condensin biology, ribosomal DNA biology, neuronal growth  and repair.

Emine E. Abali
Cancer Institute of NJ
Phone: (732) 235-8670
Email: abaliem@umdnj.ed

 

Debabrata Banerjee
Cancer Institute of NJ
Phone: (732) 235-6458
Email: banerjed@umdnj.edu

Joseph Bertino
Cancer Institute of NJ
Phone: (732) 235-8520
Email: bertinoj@umdnj.edu

 

Zhaohui Feng
Cancer Institute of NJ
Phone: (732) 235-8814
Email: fengzh@umdnj.ed

Shridar Ganesan
Cancer Institute of NJ
Phone: (732) 235-5211
Email: ganesash@umdnj.edu

 

John Glod
Cancer Institute of NJ
Phone: (732) 235-6529
Email: glodjo@umdnj.edu

John B. Kostis
Dept. of Medicine
Medical Education Building
Phone: (732) 235-7740
Email: kostis@umdnj.edu

Patricia K. Sonsalla
Neurology/UMDNJ-RWJMS
Phone: (732) 235-4065
Email: sonsalla@umdnj.edu

Zhiyuan Shen
Cancer Institute of NJ
Phone: (732) 235-6101
Email: shenzh@umdnj.edu

Bing Xia
Radiation Onc./CINJ
Phone: (732) 235-7410
Email: xiabi@umdnj.edu