He completed graduate work in the joint program in computational biochemistry at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. His postdoctoral training was done at the University of California, San Diego, where he was a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Fellow and a member of the Center of Theoretical Biological Physics. Dr. McLaughlin is currently a contributing member of the Protein Society, The International Society for Computational Biology, American Medical Informatics Association and the American Chemical Society. His research interests include the energetics of macromolecular association (protein/DNA and protein/protein), protein/drug interactions, high throughput molecular biological experiments, data mining and drug repositioning.