Department

Service

As part of a major state research university, a key component of the mission of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology is to provide service to the State of New Jersey and to the Nation. This is accomplished through our undergraduate and graduate programs, faculty and student research, service on boards and commissions, collaboration and consulting with academic and industrial partners, and through sponsorship of workshops, seminars, and conferences.

Career Paths

Many CCB graduates remain in New Jersey, contributing to education at all levels and to technological development in the chemical, pharmaceutical, advanced materials, and related industries. Others attend professional schools such as medicine, law, and business.

• Employment in local industries helps to improve the economy and the quality of life through new products and pharmaceuticals.
• Employment in educational institutions helps to train the next generation of science leaders.

Collaborations

Multidisciplinary collaborations are required to solve an increasing number of today's complex problems. Within Rutgers, CCB faculty members collaborate with many individual departments (Biomedical Engineering; Ceramic & Materials Engineering; Chemical & Biochemical Engineering; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Pharmaceutics; and Physics & Astronomy) and affiliated Centers and Institutes.

• External Academic Collaborations
  Examples include: Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Caltech; UC-Berkeley; UC-Davis; UC-Irvine; UC-San Diego; Case-Western Reserve; Columbia; Cornell; Cambridge; Center for Complex Molecular Systems & Biomolecules, Prague, Czech Republic; Connecticut; Delaware; European Bioinformatic Institute, Cambridge (UK); Florida State; Fribourg (Switzerland); Harvard; Indian Institute Science, Bangalore; Indiana U.; Institut Pasteur (Paris, France); Iowa State; Johns Hopkins, London; Maryland; Michigan State; Morris Brown College; National Institutes of Health; UN-Reno; UMDNJ (including New Jersey Dental School, New Jersey Medical School, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School); North Carolina State, Rowan; Scripps Institute; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; Temple; UT-Austin; Uppsala (Sweden); Vanderbilt; Virginia Tech; Weizmann Institute; Wisconsin-Madison; and Yale.
• Industrial Collaborations
  Examples include: Abbott Laboratories; Agere Systems; ASM; Avon; Aventis; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Continuum Dynamics, Inc.; Dow Corning Corp.; Enpirion; Ethicon; IBM; Lavipharm; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Lucent Technologies; Merck; Motorola; National Biomedical Research Foundation; National Institute of Genetics, Japan; NIST; Sanger Centre; Schering-Plough; Sigma-Aldrich; and Texas Instruments.

Consulting

Our faculty's expertise is solicited by many companies, ranging from large, multinational firms to small, start-up companies.

• New Jersey-based firms
  Examples include: Becton Dickinson; Ganes Chemicals; Johnson & Johnson; Merck; National Starch; Polymerix; and RenalTech.
• Other firms
  Examples include: Abbott Laboratories; DuPont; Kovio; Sematech; Ubiomics.

Professional Activities

CCB faculty members serve their disciplines in areas ranging from international scientific societies to local educational initiatives.

• Advisory Roles
  • Berkeley Structural Genomics Center (External Advisory Committee Review)
  • International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Nomenclature Committee)
  • Biophysical Society (Past President and Member of the Executive Committee)
  • Blue Gene Applications Advisory Board (IBM)
  • Computational Structural Biology, Florida State University (External Advisory Board)
  • Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (Executive Board Member and Burroughs-Wellcome Co-Director)
  • International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (U.S. National Committee Member and International Council Member)
  • American Crystallographic Association (Data, Standards & Computing Committee)
• Editorial Boards & Positions
  • American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, J. Biol. Chem. o Annual Reviews, Inc., Annual Reviews in Biophysics & Biomolecular Structure
  • John Wiley and Sons, Biopolymers
• Meeting Organization
  • Chair, MRS National Meeting
  • ACS Organic Symposium
• State & National Committees
  • New Jersey Commission for Job Growth and Economic Development
  • Consultant, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Board of Scientific Councilors, National Institutes of Health