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Alexander W. Kusnecov, PhD – Psychology Department Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Rutgers University

Professor

Dr. Kusnecov received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, and pursued postdoctoral research in psychoneuroimmunology in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester

Jerome Langer, PhD – Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Associate Professor

Debra L. Laskin, PhD – Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

Distinguished Professor and Chair Roy A. Bowers Endowed Chair

My research is focused on elucidating inflammatory mechanisms underlying acute injury and disease pathogenesis induced by drugs and toxicants in the lung and the liver. I am specifically interested in

Steve Levison, PhD – Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Professor, Director, Laboratory for Regenerative Neurobiology

Steven W. Levison graduated from the University of Rochester, where he received a B.S. in Neuroscience in 1983. He completed a Ph.D. in Neurobiology in 1990 at UNC-Chapel Hill, followed

David Lukac, PhD – Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Track in Infection, Immunity and Inflammation

Faculty Profile Publications

Mengze Lyu, PhD – Division of Medical Oncology Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Resident Faculty, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine Associate Member, Center for Immunity & Inflammation

Assistant Professor

The Lyu laboratory investigates the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying host–microbe interactions in cancer and inflammatory disorders. Our research seeks to understand how microbes influence inflammation, tumor progression, and therapeutic

Salvatore AE Marras, PhD – Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, Public Health Research Institute

Assistant Professor

Dr. Salvatore Marras co-developed molecular beacons, one of the first fluorescent nucleic acid hybridization probe technologies. These probes are used for the real-time monitoring of nucleic acid amplification assays, such

J. Patrick O’Connor, PhD, MS – Department of Orthopaedics, Center for Immunity & Inflammation, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Associate Professor & Vice Chair for Research

Faculty Profile Publications

Reynold A. Pannettieri, Jr., MD – Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science

Vice Chancellor and Director for Translational Medicine and Science, Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr, MD, the inaugural Director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Science and Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine and Science at Rutgers University, previously served as the Director

Biju Parekkadan, PhD – Biomedical Engineering Medicine, School of Engineering, Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Associate Professor

Our group develops new platform technologies for cell and gene therapy. To this end, we converge knowledge and techniques of cell/gene/tissue engineering, drug delivery, biomaterials, micro/macro-fluidic bioreactors, transport phenomena, chemical