Graduate Program in Medicinal Chemistry
Faculty and Staff
Longqin Hu Director, Graduate Program in Medicinal Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Drug Design, Anticancer Prodrugs, Inhibitors of Crystallization for stone diseases, Small molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
email: Longhu@rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-5291
Ph.D., Cornell University
Antiviral Drug Design, X-ray Crystallography
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
email: arnold@cabm.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-9777
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Novel Antibacterial Therapeutic Strategies
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Physiology and Medicine, NJMS
email: freundjs@rutgers.edu
Phone: 973-972-7165
Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis
Natural products isolation and structure elucidation
Professor, Department of Food Science
email: chitang.ho@rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-9611
Leslie Jimenez
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Synthesis of natural products, new synthetic methods
Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
email: jimenez@chem.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-0641
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Molecular modeling and computational chemistry
Director, Information Technology, Division of Life Sciences and Chemistry
email: kerrigje@sas.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-1222
Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo
Synthesis and SAR studies of Pharmaceutical Agents
Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
email: elavoie@pharmacy.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-2674
Ph.D., Cornell University
Design and synthesis of enzyme inhibitors, natural product synthesis and synthetic methodology
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
email: m.moschitto@pharmacy.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-5382
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Botanicals and Plant-derived natural products with medicinal activity
Distinguished Professor, Department of Plant Biology; Director, New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program (NUANPP)
email: jimsimon@rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-6239
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Small molecule antivirals targeting emerging and remerging viruses
Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
email: junwang@pharmacy.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-5381
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Total synthesis of biologically-active natural products
Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
email: lwilliams@chem.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-7196
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Computer-aided drug design and bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, RWJMS
email: welshwj@rwjms.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-235-3234
Associate Faculty Members:
Ph.D., Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry (Kiev, Ukraine)
High Performance and Research Computing
Senior Scientist, Office of Advanced Research Computing
email: vlad.khol@rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-5258
Ph.D., Peking Union Medical College
Natural product isolation and structure characterization
Associate Research Professor, Dept of Plant Biology and Pathology
email: qlwu@sebs.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-9711 ext, 367