Welcome to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Physiology and Biophysics Website. The department has research strengths in cardiovascular & muscle research, endocrinology, and cell physiology. Dr. Nicola C. Partridge has been chaired since July 2000. Her goals are to develop the department into a world-class center for modern physiological research with particular emphases in endocrinology, cell physiology and cardiovascular & muscle research. As part of this program, she has recruited a considerable number of new faculty whose research is relevant to these areas. The new and existing faculty are using state-of-the-art molecular biological and transgenic approaches to address physiological questions. With the knowledge gained of the human genome, this is a time for a resurgence in physiological research to identify the organismal function of identified genes. In addition to their world-class research, the faculty also pride themselves on their medical and graduate school teaching. Many changes in each of these have taken place. At present, we teach Medical and Physician Assistant Physiology and all the faculty participate in the Physiology and Integrative Biology Graduate Program as well as many others at both Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University. We welcome applications from persons interested in graduate school and postdoctoral fellow positions.

Department of Physiology & Biophysics
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
683 Hoes Lane

SPH/ RWJ Research Building 2nd Floor #259
Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635

(tel.) 732-235-4550
(fax) 732-235-5038