Research in the biomedical and life sciences at Rutgers has a long and distinguished history. From the breeding of the popular Rutgers "Big Boy" tomato to the discovery of the important antibiotics actinomycin A and streptomycin (for which Rutgers professor Selman Waksman received the Nobel Prize), excellence has characterized biological research at Rutgers. The collaborative research community at Rutgers fosters new discoveries in a wide range of disciplines, from gene expression to developmental biology, from protein structure to virology, from drug design to human genetics.
Our faculty members' specific research interests are readily accessible. You can explore their work using the search bar tools on the Program Faculty page.
Major Research Areas include:
- Aging
- Apoptosis/autophagy
- Behavior
- Cancer Biology
- Cell division / Cell cycle
- Cell stress / Cell death
- Chromosome biology
- Computational Biology
- Cytoskeleton
- Developmental Biology
- Disease genetics
- DNA replication and repair
- Drug Discovery
- Endocrinology
- Epigenetics / Chromatin
- Evolution
- Gene regulation
- Immunology
- Learning / Memory
- Metabolism / Nutrition
- Microbiome
- Nanobiology/nanotechnology
- Neurological disease
- Neuroscience
- Organelle biology
- Pathogenesis
- Reproduction and Gametogenesis
- RNA / ribosome biology
- Signaling
- Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Tissue Injury
- Structural Biology
- Virology
Major Research Techniques include:
- Atomic or Electron microscopy
- Biochemistry
- Bioinformatics / computational
- Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Cell culture
- Clinical trials
- Fluorescent and super-resolution microscopy
- Genetic engineering
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Imaging
- Metabolomics
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Protein Structure/ Crystallography
- Proteomics
- Single Cell RNA Techniques
- Transcriptomics
Research Organisms studied include:
- Bacteria
- C. elegans
- Cell lines
- Drosophila
- Humans
- in silico
- in vitro
- Mice
- Viruses
- Yeast
- Zebrafish