Rutgers: Prof. Sinko's Research Lab

Group Members

	Sinko Group Alumni
Principal Investigator
	Patrick J. Sinko, Ph.D. Professor II (Pharmaceutics) sinko@rutgers.edu

	Amy J. Grabowski Administrative Assistant Office of the Vice President for Research Tel: (732) 445-3831 *213; Fax: (732) 445-4271 grabowsk@rci.rutgers.edu
Research Faculty
	Stanley Stein, Ph.D. Associate Research Professor Tel: (732) 445-3831 *224; Fax: (732) 445-3134 ststein@rci.rutgers.edu Dr. Stein received his PhD. (Biochemistry) from City University of New York (USA). He did posdoctoral studies at Roche Institute of Molecular Biology (USA) and then at departmets 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 Zhang, Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor Tel: (732) 445-3831 *227; Fax: (732) 445-3134 xzhang@rci.rutgers.edu Xiaoping received his PhD. (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, and mechanism of cell penetrating peptides and endosomal escape.

	Simi Gunaseelan, Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor Tel: (732) 445-3831 *235; Fax: (732) 445-3134 simig@rci.rutgers.edu Dr. Simi received her Ph.D. (Physico-Organic Chemistry) from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (India). She joined Sinko's group as posdoctoral associate in 2002. Currently, she is working as Research Assistant Professor.

	Yashveer Singh, Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor Yashveer received his Ph.D. (Chemistry) from University of Allahabad (India). He did posdoctoral studies at Indian Institute of Science (India) and Université Joseph Fourier (France). He joined Sinko's group in 2005.

	Gunaseelan Krishnan, Ph.D. Tel: (732) 445-3831 *235 gunaseel@rci.rutgers.edu Guna received his Ph.D. (Chemistry) in 2001 from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong (India). He received his M.Phil. in 1996 from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (India) and worked as Assistant Tea Technologist at UPASI Tea Research Institute (India). He joined the chemistry department at Rutgers as postdoctoral associate in 2002, where he worked on antioxidant distributions in model food emulsions. He joined Sinko's group in 2009.

	Dayuan Gao, Ph.D. Research Associate Tel: (732) 445-3831 ext. 235; Fax: (732) 445-3134 dayuang@rci.rutgers.edu Dayuan received his PhD. (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.

	Donglin Liu, Ph.D. Research Associate donglin@rci.rutgers.edu Donglin received his PhD. (Physiology) from Chinese Academy of Sciences. He did posdoctoral studies at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School (Newark) and The Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University-UMDNJ (Piscataway). He joined Sinko's group in 2007.
Postdoctoral Associates
	Manjeet Deshmukh, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate manjeetd@rci.rutgers.edu Manjeet received his PhD. (Chemistry) from Philipps Universität Marburg (Germany). He joined Sinko's group in 2005.

	Jie-Ming Gao, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate gaojm@rutgers.edu Jieming received his Ph.D. in Material Science from Southwest Jiaotong University (China) He joined Sinko's group in 2008.
Graduate Students
	Hill Kutscher Graduate Student kutscher@eden.rutgers.edu 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 enjoys being outdoors.

	Helen Cui Part Time Graduate Student (Ethicon) hcui@ethus.jnj.com Helen received her B.S. from Beijing Polytechnique University, China and M.S. from University of Illinois at Chicago. She is working at Johnson and Jonson. She joined Sinko's group as part time graduate student in 2003. She is working on elucidation of mechanism of polymeric biomaterial interactions with proteins and cells.

	Swathi Pinnamaneni Part Time Graduate Student (Bristol-Myers Squibb)

	Sree Priya Anumolu Graduate Student sanumolu@eden.rutgers.edu Sree received her B. S. (Pharm) from Nagarjuna University (India). She joined Sinko's group in 2004. She is working on drug-delivery systems for skin and eye .

	Pei-Ming Chen Graduate Student peiming@eden.rutgers.edu Peiming received his B. S. (Environmental Science) from TungHai University (Taiwan). He joined the graduate school of Pharmaceutical Science at Rutgers in 2005.

	Matthew Palombo Graduate Student mpalombo@eden.rutgers.edu Matt received his B. S. E. (Biomedical Engineering) from Tulane University (New Orleans). He joined Sinko's group in 2006 and working on HIV/AIDS drug-delivery. He is currently an AFPE predoctoral fellow.

	Sherif Ibrahim Graduate Student sherifi@eden.rutgers.edu 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 Samizadeh Graduate Student mahta@eden.rutgers.edu 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 Sundararajan Graduate Student 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 group in 2008. She is working on lung drug delivery.