Bacterial CETR Leadership
Program Directors
David Perlin, Ph.D.
Project leader - (Project 3)
Chief Scientific Officer and Member,
Center for Discovery and Innovation
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Scientific Advisory Board Members
Karen Shaw, Ph.D.
Expertise: Antifungal and antibacterial drug discovery; Extensive
Pharma/industry experience
Steven Projan, Ph.D., FAAM
Expertise: Antifungal, antiviral and vaccine drug development; Extensive Pharma/industry and investor experience
Neil Clancy, M.D.
Expertise: Medical Mycologist, Transplant ID, Therapeutic and diagnostic applications in invasive fungal diseases
Project and Core Leaders
Thomas Dick, Ph.D.
Project leader - (Project 1)
Member,
Center for Discovery and Innovation Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Véronique Dartois, Ph.D.
Project co-leader - (Project 1)
Program Manager,
Center for Discovery and Innovation Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
David Alland, M.D.
Project leader - (Project 2)
Professor and Chief, Department of Medicine - Division of Infectious Diseases, New Jersey Medical School
Director, Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School
Joel Freundlich, Ph.D.
Project leader -
(Project 2)
and Medicinal Chemistry Core Director
Medicinal Chemistry Core Director
Professor
Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience/ Medicine
Rutgers University–New Jersey Medical School
David Perlin, Ph.D.
Project leader - (Project 3)
Chief Scientific Officer and Member,
Center for Discovery and Innovation
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Terry Roemer, Ph.D.
Project leader - (Project 4)
Chairman, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Prokaryotics, Inc.
Richard Ebright, Ph.D.
Project leader - (Project 5)
Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University and Laboratory Director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology
Vidmantas Petraitis, M.D.
Pharmacology Core Director
Associate Member
Center for Discovery and Innovation
Matthew Zimmerman
Pharmacology Core
Co-Director
Manager, Head of Analytical Chemistry
Center for Discovery and Innovation
James Merritt, Ph.D.
Medicinal Chemistry Core Director
Member, Center for Discovery and Innovation
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Barry Kreiswirth, Ph.D.
Medicinal Chemistry Core Director
Member, Center for Discovery and Innovation
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Andrew Nelson, DVM
Animal Models Core Director
Director, Research Animal Models,
Center for Discovery and Innovation
Alla Rabinovich, MBA
Business Director, Administrative Core
Chief Operations Officer, Center for Discovery and Innovation
Madhuvika Murugan, Ph.D.
Program Manager, Administrative Core
Special Research Programs and Communications Lead, Center for Discovery and Innovation