Faculty Directory

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William Wadsworth - Professor- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine- UMDNJ

Extracellular matrix and the guidance of cell migrations in C. elegans

Nancy C. Walworth- Professor - Department of Pharmacology- UMDNJ

Cell cycle checkpoint control in response to DNA damage

William W. Ward- Professor- Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology- Rutgers

Basic biochemistry, applications of bioluminescence

Harvey Weiss - Professor- Department of Physiology & Biophysics - UMDNJ

I. How nitric oxide and its second messenger cyclic GMP serve as a "brake" on myocardial function and how this changes in disease. II. The relationship between excitatory amino acid receptors and cerebral oxygen supply and consumption balance and the changes in disease

William Welsh - Professor- Department of Pharmacology - UMDNJ

Drug discovery, computer-aided molecular modeling and design, bioinformatics and cheminformatics

Guy Werlen - Associate Professor- Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience - Rutgers

Signaling networks & mechanisms that control life and death of developing T lymphocytes

Eileen White- Professor- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry - Rutgers

Adenovirus, p53, apoptosis, oncogenes, programmed cell death, tumor suppressor genes, cancer, E1B, Bcl-2, cell cycle, caspase

Lori A. White - Assistant Professor- Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology - Rutgers

Molecular mechanisms of xenobiotic-induced pathologies

Julie A. Williams - Assistant Professor- Department of Pharmacology - UMDNJ

Circadian and homeostatic mechanisms of sleep

Donald A. Winkelmann-  Professor- Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine - UMDNJ

Protein structure, molecular motors, protein engineering, macromolecular assembly, muscle contraction

Nancy A. Woychik - Associate Professor- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology - UMDNJ

Aging; Viral/Bacterial Pathogenesis; Cancer --Visit Dr. Woychik's Lab!!


Bing Xia - Assistant Professor - Department of Radiation Oncology - UMDNJ

DNA repair, breast cancer, Fanconi anemia, childhood cancers

Mengqing Xiang - Professor - Department of Pediatrics - UMDNJ

Molecular bases of sensorineural development, transcriptional regulation of retinal and inner ear development - Visit the Xiang Lab!!


Chung S. Yang- Professor- Department of Chemical Biology and Pharmacognosy- Rutgers

Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and its prevention

Guofeng You- Professor- Department of Pharmaceutics - Rutgers

Molecular and cellular pharmacology, drug/toxin elimination, transporter

Lily Young- Professor II- Department of Environmental Science- Rutgers

Anaerobic microbial metabolism of environmental contaminants, microbial ecology

Wise Young- Professor- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience- Rutgers

Brain and spinal cord injury research

Lei Yu - Professor II- Department of Genetics - Rutgers

Molecular genetics of alcoholism, compulsive behavior, drug abuse, pain, stress

Peter Yurchenco- Professor- Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine- UMDNJ

Assembly, structure and function of basement membranes- Visit the Yurchenco Lab!


Rob Zachow - Associate Professor - Department of Physiology & Biophysics- UMDNJ

Reproductive endocrinology, steroidogenesis, signal transduction

Helmut Zarbel - Professor - Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine- UMDNJ

Mammary carcinogenesis, Lung Carcinogenesis, Mechanisms of toxicity, Genetic susceptibility, Toxicogenomics, Tumor suppressor genes, Functional genomics, Signal transduction, Transcriptional regulation, Mutagenesis

X.F. Steven Zheng - University Professor - Department of Pharmacology - UMDNJ

Growth control, signal transduction, cancer, chemical genetics and genomics, drug discovery

Renping Zhou - Professor - Department of Chemical Biology - Rutgers

Molecular biology of axonal guidance and neural map formation

Barbara Zilinskas- Professor- Department of Plant Science - Rutgers

Plant molecular biology and biochemistry

Gerben J. Zylstra - Professor- Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology - Rutgers

Molecular and biochemical basis for microbial aromatic hydrocarbon degradation