Faculty Directory

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Estela Jacinto - Assistant Professor - Department of Physiology & Biophysics - UMDNJ

Signal transduction, growth control, actin cytoskeleton, nutrient sensing

Shengkan (Victor) Jin - Associate Professor - Department of Pharmacology - UMDNJ

Tumor suppressor genes, programmed cell death, tumorigenesis

William Johnson - Professor - Department of Neurology - UMDNJ

Human genetics, nervious system traits & diseases, linkage mapping, genomic markers, microsatellite polymorphisms, positional cloning

Frank Jordan- Professor- Department of Chemistry- Rutgers

Bioorganic and biophysical chemistry, enzymology, protein folding

Peter C. Kahn - Professor- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology- Rutgers

Protein folding, subunit assembly, ligand interactions, hydration, dioxins and related compounds

Charalampos Kalodimos - Assistant Professor- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology - Rutgers

Structural biology. NMR spectroscopy. Allostery and dynamics. Protein trafficking. Cell signaling. Gene regulation. Protein secretion. DNA & RNA helicases.

Barton A. Kamen - Professor- Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology- UMDNJ

Pediatric oncology, folate metabolism, anti-folates, clinical pharmacology and drug development

Vassiliki Karantza-Wadsworth - Assistant Professor- Department of Medicine- UMDNJ

Breast cancer progression and treatment, autophagy, apoptosis, beclin1

Lee Kerkhof- Associate Professor- Department of Marine Sciences- Rutgers

Marine microbiology, molecular ecology, microbial population dynamics

Randall Kerstetter - Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology and Pathology- Rutgers

Molecular genetics of leaf development, dorsal-ventral polarity in Arabidopsis, tools for manipulating plant gene expression

Megerditch Kiledjian - Professor- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience- Rutgers

Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, determinants of mRNA stability, RNA-protein interactions

Isaac Yi Kim - Assistant Professor- Department of Surgery - UMDNJ

Roles of transforming growth factor- β and bone morphongenetic proteins in prostate cancer cells

Terri Goss Kinzy - Professor- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology- UMDNJ

Regulation of gene expression, mechanisms of protein synthesis and G-Protein regulation

Joachim B. Kohn- Professor- Department of Chemistry- Rutgers   

Biocompatibility of medical implant materials, artificial biopolymer

Ah-Ng Tony Kong-Professor- Department of Pharmaceutics- Rutgers

MAP Kinases and caspases signaling in cell life and cell death, Nrf2 transcription factor, cancer chemopreventitive compounds and environmental agents

Mary Konsolaki - Associate Research Professor- Department of Genetics - Rutgers

Analysis of toxicity associated with Alzheimer’s beta-amyloid, using Drosophila as a model system

Marilyn Kozak- Professor- Department of Biochemistry - UMDNJ

Translation, mRNA structure, gene expression

Sunita Gupta Kramer - Assistant Professor- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine - UMDNJ

Cell migration and signaling, extracellular matrix, muscle and heart development

Jerome J. Kukor- Associate Professor- Department of Environmental Science - Rutgers

Microbial biodegradation of xenobiotics, microbial biochemistry; regulation of gene expression

Casimir A. Kulikowski- Professor- Department of Computer Science- Rutgers

Intelligent systems and machine learning in molecular biology

Thomas Kusch - Assistant Professor- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry- Rutgers

Epigenetic mechanisms of gene expression and genome stability, Multiprotein complexes modulating chromatin structure, Histone variants


Eric Lam - Professor- Department of Plant Science - Rutgers

Gene expression, transcription factors, signal transduction, leaf morphogenesis, pattern formation

Jerome A. Langer- Associate Professor- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology- UMDNJ

Structure and function of interferons and interferon receptors; development of Type I IFN antagonists; role of IFNs in autoimmune diseases such as lupus

Debra L. Laskin- Professor- Department of Toxicology - Rutgers

Immunology, macrophages, nitric oxide, inflammation

Jeffrey D. Laskin- Professor- Department of Environmental and Community Medicine - UMDNJ

Cancer research, oncogene expression and growth factor mediated signal transduction, tyrosine kinases, immunobiology of inflammation, nitric oxide

Edmund C. Lattime - Professor- Department of Surgery - UMDNJ

Tumor immunology, immune mechanisms, genetically-based vaccine strategies

Michael A. Lawton- Associate Professor- Department of Plant Science - Rutgers

Plant defense responses, signal transduction

Jeehiun Katherine Lee -  Professor- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology - Rutgers

Biophysical organic and analytical chemistry; computational chemistry; mass spectrometry; study of chemical reactivity, recognition, and catalysis

Michael J. Leibowitz- Professor - Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology - UMDNJ

Epigenetic regulation of viral gene expression in yeast, RNA targeted therapeutics, molecular pharmacology

Thomas Leustek- Professor- Department of Plant Science -Rutgers

Biochemistry, physiology

Ronald Levy- Professor- Department of Chemistry- Rutgers

Computer modeling of protein structure and dynamics

Honghua Li- Associate Professor- Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology - UMDNJ

Genome-scale understanding the genetic basis of breast cancer, understanding the mechanisms underlying human immunoglobulin VH gene complex diversification

Alice Y.-C. Liu- Professor- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience- Rutgers

Stress, aging, and molecular chaperones

Fang Liu- Associate Professor- Department of Chemical Biology - Rutgers

Signal transduction and gene regulation, growth and differentiation control

Leroy F. Liu- Professor- Department of Pharmacology- UMDNJ

Cancer biology, cancer pharmacology, DNA conformation dynamics, DNA damage and repair

Peter Lobel - Professor - Department of Pharmacology - UMDNJ

Hereditary neurodegenerative diseases, functional genomics, lysosomes, protein targeting