Center for Military Biomaterials ResearchIntegrated Technologies for Polymeric Biomaterials




Search

Home: Industry: Center for Dermal Research: Participants and Members : Participating Faculty and Collaborators of CDR

Francois Berthiaume, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University School of Engineering
Burns, metabolism, dermal regeneration, cell migration, aging

Richard Clark, MD, Director, Center of Tissue Engineering; Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Dermatology, and Medicine, Stony Brook University

Allan Conney, PhD, Garbe Professor of Cancer and Leukemia Research, Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Factors influencing UV carcinogenesis

Nava Dayan, PhD, Director R&D, LipoChemicals, Inc. Paterson NJ; Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University
Topical applications; cosmetics and personal care; anti-aging, natural products; innate immunity; delivery systems

Carol Flach, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University-Newark
Confocal Raman and infrared spectroscopy and imaging
Spectroscopic imaging of prodrug and drug permeation and conversion in skin
Spectroscopic imaging of cutaneous wound healing
Spectroscopic characterization of collagen hydration in dermis
Spectroscopic characterization of stratum corneum barrier function

Jayeeta Ghosh, PhD, Research Associate, Predictive Modeling and Advanced Analytics Group, DigitalRays
http://www.cocib.com/
Computational Chemistry, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, All atom and coarse grained molecular models for glass formers, skin lipid membranes, Cheminformatics, Quantitative Structure Property Relationship (QSPR) modeling based on machine learning, data mining techniques.

Marion Gordon, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University
Collagens, wound healing, fibrosis, cornea, ocular sulfur mustard chemical
counterterrorism

Doyle Knight, PhD, Professor & Director, Center for Computational Design, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University
The Center for Computational Design of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering conducts research in development and application of models for simulation of drug-polymer complexes with a focus on understanding their chemical structure and potential application for biomedical research and clinical application

Jeffrey Laskin, PhD, Principal Investigator, Professor & Chief, Division of Toxicology, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Skin toxicity, vesicants, ultraviolet light, inflammation, differentiation, sunscreens, photosensitizers

Robert K. Prud'homme, PhD, Professor and Director Program in Engr. Biology Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Nanoparticle formulations, gels, controlled release, complex fluid rheology, polymer synthesis

Ilya Raskin, PhD, Professor II at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and President of the Global Institute for Bio-Exploration (GIBEX), Founder and Partner in Nutrasorb LLC and Food4Good Inc., Member of the NIH Center for Botanicals and Metabolic Syndrome.
Our laboratory is interested in discovering, studying and developing a new generation of plant-derived foods, medicines and cosmetics.  Our work primarily targets metabolic syndrome, inflammatory diseases and skin aging. We are also developing technologies that naturally and effectively concentrate, stabilize and deliver beneficial phytochemicals from edible and medicinal plants in the amounts sufficient to promote health and wellness. We lead the Global Institute for BioExploration (GIBEX), which is an international research and development network that promotes ethical, natural product-based pharmacological bioexploration to benefit human health and the environment in developing countries.
 
Dr. Francesca Levi-Schaffer, The Institute of Drug Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
In vitro skin model for immunologic contact urticaria, allergic inflammation in eosinophils and mast cells, immunopharmacology

Melissa Magliocco, MD, CPI, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Acting Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, immunology, biologics, skin cancer prevention

Richard Mendelsohn, PhD, Professor II Biophysical Chemistry, Rutgers University-Newark
Applications of infrared spectroscopy to biophysical and biomedical problems,
membrane biophysics, vibrational spectroscopy, phospholipid/protein interaction, lung surfactants

Otto H. Mills Jr., PhD, FCP, Adjunct Professor, Department of Dermatology University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Scientific Advisor, Target Health Inc.
Dermatopharmacology, safety and efficacy testing, acne, rosacea,dry skin
and cutaneous microbiology

Sanjeeva Murthy, PhD, Associate Research Professor, NJ Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers University
Physics of biomaterials, materials characterization, and fabrication of tissue scaffolds

Alberto Canelas Pais, Ph.D, Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Department, Coimbra University, Rua Larga, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal.
Simulation, controlled release, polyelectrolytes, chemometrics

Anis Rahman, CEO/CTO, Applied Research and Photonics, Harrisburg PA.
Terahertz spectrometry, nanotechnology, biotechnology, molecular spectroscopy,
electro-optics and photonics.

Kishore Shah, PhD, CEO, Polytherapeutics, Inc., Bridgewater NJ.
Transdermal, dermatological, cosmetic skincare, & polymers

Larisa Sheihet, PhD, Senior Research Investigator, Sanofi
http://en.sanofi.com/at-a-glance/edito.asp
Health care solutions for tissue repair, bio-inspired tissue adhesives, enhanced drug delivery technologies and novel formulations.

Laurent Simon, PhD, Associate Professor, NJIT Master Teacher; Associate Director, Pharmaceutical Engineering Program, NJIT
Controlled release systems; mathematical model; process control

Adam Singer, MD, Professor and Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook University
Cutaneous wound healing, burns, tissue adhesives, pain management, and
cardiovascular disease

Patrick Sinko, PhD, Associate Vice President for Research, Parke-Davis Chair Professor, Pharmacy/Pharmaceutics, Rutgers University
Wound healing, inflammation, topical delivery, mostly hydrogel platforms

Amnon Sintov, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Pharmaceutics, percutaneous absotrption, transdermal and topical drug delivery,
intranasal drug delivery, controlled drug deliver

Stavroula Sofou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University
Heterogeneous biomembranes, self-assembling biomaterials, biointerfaces,  targeted drug delivery, lipid-based carriers for cancer chemotherapy and internal radiotherapy

Hongjun Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
Skin tissue engineering, wound healing, multiscale biomaterials design, biomimetic tissue engineering, cell-material interaction, nanomedicine.

William Welsh, PhD
, Norman H. Edelman Professor in Bioinformatics Department of Pharmacology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Director, UMDNJ Informatics Institute

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

Philip Wertz, Ph.D, Professor, Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology,and Medicine, University of Iowa, College of Dentistry, Iowa City, IA.
Skin & skin lipids, buccal mucosa; biochemistry of carcinogensis; essential fatty acids; compositions and structures of lipids of oral mucosa; metabolism of sphingosine and sphingolipids; comparative enzymology of skin and oral epithelium; the chemical synthesis of ceramide analogues; antimicrobial properties of lipids; and the preparation of liposomes for use in drug delivery systems.

Martin Yarmush, MD, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University
New treatments for healing chronic wounds, allergy-on-a-chip microsystems for
replacing animal testing