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 of our faculty include:
| Aging | Cytoskeleton | Gene regulation | Organelle biology |
| Apoptosis/autophagy | Developmental Biology | Immunology | Pathogenesis |
| Behavior | Disease genetics | Learning / Memory | Reproduction and Gametogenesis |
| Cancer Biology | DNA replication and repair | Metabolism / Nutrition | RNA / ribosome biology |
| Cell division / Cell cycle | Drug Discovery | Microbiome | Signaling |
| Cell stress / Cell death | Endocrinology | Nanobiology/nanotechnology | Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Tissue Injury |
| Chromosome biology | Epigenetics / Chromatin | Neurological disease | Structural Biology |
| Computational Biology | Evolution | Neuroscience | Virology |
Major Research Techniques used by our faculty include:
| Atomic or Electron microscopy | Cell culture | Genomics | Proteomics |
| Biochemistry | Clinical trials | Imaging | Single Cell RNA Techniques |
| Bioinformatics / computational | Fluorescent and super-resolution microscopy | Metabolomics | Transcriptomics |
| Biophysics | Genetic engineering | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | |
| Cell Biology | Genetics | Protein Structure/ Crystallography |
Research Organisms studied by our faculty include:
| Bacteria | Drosophila | in silico | Yeast |
| C. elegans | Humans | Mice | Zebrafish |
| Cell lines | in vitro | Viruses |
