Sinko Group Alumni

Dr. Stein received his Ph.D. (Biochemistry) from the City University of New York (USA). He did postdoctoral studies at Roche Institute of Molecular Biology (USA) and then at departments of Hoffmann-La Roche (USA). In 1986, he joined the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM), a joint venture of Rutgers University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). He joined Sinko's group in 2002.

Xiaoping received his Ph.D. (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) from Rutgers University (USA). He worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Research Division of American Cyanamid Co. (NY). He joined the Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical School (USA) as research associate in 1994 and later became Research Assistant Professor in 1995. He returned to Rutgers in 1999 as Senior Research Scientist at the College of Pharmacy. Currently, he is working as Assistant Research Professor.
Xiaoping's research efforts are directed towards the identification of novel cell-targeting ligands, intracellular fate of drug delivery conjugates, mechanism of cell penetrating peptides, and endosomal escape.

Zoltan Szekely received his Ph.D. (Bio-Organic Chemistry) from the Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University in Hungary. He worked briefly in London, Göttingen and Toronto. After a postdoctoral scholarship in Trieste, Italy, he worked seven years at the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD. In addition to his cancer projects, he served as the primary chemist for the team discovering APF-1, a biomarker for interstitial cystitis. Recently, he worked for the pharmaceutical industry on HIV drug development. His major interests are drug design and development for cancer and HIV. Besides basic research, he is actively developing chemical instrumentation for high-throughput automated synthesis and building up a new facility for chemical biology at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy.

Yashveer received his Ph.D. (Chemistry) from University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. He did posdoctoral studies at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France; and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. He joined Sinko's group in 2005.

Dayuan received his Ph.D. (Biochemistry) from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (China). He did postdoctoral studies at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University (Japan), and Mount Sinai Medical Center (USA). He joined Sinko's group in 2005.

Hill received his B.S. (Chemical Engineering) from Clarkson University (US) in 2001. He joined Sinko's group in 2003. He is working on lung drug delivery systems. He is a former AFPE Predoctoral Fellow. He enjoys being outdoors.

Peiming received his B.S. (Environmental Science) from TungHai University (Taiwan). He joined the graduate school of Pharmaceutical Science at Rutgers in 2005.  

Matthew received his B.S.E. (Biomedical Engineering) from Tulane University (New Orleans, LA) and is currently a PhRMA predoctoral fellow. He joined Sinko's group in 2006 and is working on targeted HIV/AIDS drug-delivery.

Sherif received his B.A. (Cell Biology) from Rutgers College in 2004. He joined Sinko's group in 2006. He is working on drug delivery systems for prostate and breast cancer.

Mahta received her Pharm.D. from Azad University of Tehran (Iran). She joined Sinko's group in 2008. She is working on HIV/AIDS drug-delivery.

Sujata received her Masters in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005. She worked as a Senior Research Assistant at Oregon Health and Science University, before joining the Sinko's group in 2008. She is working on HIV prevention.

Zichao received her B.Pharm. from China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing (China), and joined Sinko's group in 2007. She is working on breast cancer drug-delivery.

Kristia received her B.S. (Chemical Engineering) from University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in 2009. She is a former RISE fellow (2007 & 2008). She worked on thermodynamic calculations for predicting drug solubility, and studied promoter region of NF-Il6 gene. She joined Sinko's group in 2010. She loves dancing.