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Michael A. Frohman, MD, PhD
MSTP Program Director
Email: michael@pharm.stonybrook.edu

Professor Michael Frohman has directed the MSTP for the past 9 years. Dr. Frohman graduated from the U. Pennsylvania MSTP in 1986 with an MD and a PhD in Immunology, was a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, and joined the Pharmacology Dept at SBU in 1992. His research interests center on signal transduction; disease models include diabetes, thrombosis, fertility, cancer and immune responses. Dr. Frohman’s research group has authored or co-authored more than 160 papers, chapters, and reviews, including recent ones in Nature Cell Biology, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, Science Signaling, and Science. Dr. Frohman has trained 43 undegraduate students, graduate students and fellows; 2 undergraduates, 3 predoc students and 4 postdoctoral fellows are in training at present in his lab. Dr. Frohman is also the Chair of Pharmacology.


Carron Kaufman
Program Administrator
Email: carron@pharm.stonybrook.edu

As the MSTP Program Administrator, I am always available to deal promptly and effectively with all logistic and/or administrative difficulties encountered by MSTP Fellows. I try to maintain an open-door policy, and I'm always available to meet with MSTP Fellows. I can also be reached by e-mail or phone.

Paul A. Fisher, MD, PhD
MSTP Associate Director
Email: paul@pharm.stonybrook.edu

Professor Paul Fisher graduated from the Stanford MSTP in 1980 (PhD, Biophysics), was a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University and joined the Pharmacology Department at SBU in 1983. He became an MSTP Associate Director and was then Director from 1988-2003. His research interests centered on DNA replication and repair.

William L. Jungers, PhD
MSTP Associate Director
Email: william.jungers@sunysb.edu

Professor William Jungers joined the MSTP Steering Committee, started chairing the MSTP Admissions Subcommittee in 1993, and became an Associate Director in 1996. He has been a faculty member at SBU since 1979; before that, he was at the University of Illinois (1976-78). He was a postdoctoral fellow at SBU and a graduate student at the University of Michigan; his research interests are in vertebrate paleobiology. In 2008, Dr. Jungers received the Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award.

Richard Z. Lin, MD
MSTP Associate Director
Email: RZLIN@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Professor Richard Lin earned his MD at UCSF and did residency training / hematology fellowship at Stanford. He is a Professor of Medicine, a member of the institute of Molecular Cardiology, and has a joint appointment and lab space in the Department of Physiology. Dr. Lin's interests center on signal transduction in the context of cancer and cardiology. He received a 2004 U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Markus Seeliger, PhD
MSTP Associate Director
Email: markus@pharm.stonybrook.edu

Assistant Professor Markus Seeliger received his PhD at Cambridge University in Chemistry/Physics. He undertook postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley before joining the faculty at the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at SBU in 2009. His research focuses on the molecular mechanism of anti-cancer drugs.

Kathleen Stergiopoulos, MD, PhD
MSTP Associate Director
Email: kstergiopoul@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Assistant Professor Kathleen Stergiopoulos joined the Dept of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division) in 2007. Dr. Stergiopoulos received her MD-PhD from Syracuse U. in 2000, and undertook residency and fellowship training at Yale. She has published on basic science and clinical topics on connexins and cardiology.


Mailing Address:
Medical Scientist (M.D./Ph.D.) Training Program
Basic Science Tower, Floor T-8, Room 101
Stony Brook University Medical Center
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8651
Office Phone: (631) 444-3219
Office Fax: (631) 444-3492