He arrived at NJMS in 2011, and is a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases and The Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens. Prior to his return to academic research, he spent eight years in the pharmaceutical industry as a medicinal chemist. His undergraduate and master’s degree training were in chemical engineering at Cornell University as a McMullen Dean’s Scholar. He received his doctorate in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the tutelage of 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awardee Richard Schrock. See his lab website at: http://njms.rutgers.edu/departments/labs/freundlich/index.cfm His laboratory focuses on the following: