Graduate Program in Medicinal Chemistry Faculty and Staff
Jun Wang, PhD
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: 848-445-6488
Longqin Hu, PhD
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@pharmacy.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-445-5291
Matthew J. Moschitto, PhD
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
Joel S. Freundlich, PhD
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Novel Antibacterial Therapeutic Strategies
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Physiology and Medicine, NJMS (Newark campus)
email: freundjs@rutgers.edu
Phone: 973-972-7165
Associate Members of the Graduate Program
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., 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
Computer-aided drug design and bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, RWJMS
email: welshwj@rwjms.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-235-3234
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., 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
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
Additional Faculty
- Adjunct Faculty
- Professors Emeritus
- Staff – Hui Pung (Program Coordinator)
- Staff — Mary Li (Business Specialist)
