About Jeffrey H. Toney, PhD

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Dr. Toney's career has spanned both the pharmaceutical industry and academia. His academic training is in Chemistry (B.S., University of Virginia; M.S. and Ph.D., Northwestern University) and included research experience as a postdoctoral fellow in Molecular Biology (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School) and in Chemical Biology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

His current scholarship is focused on drug discovery using an interdisciplinary approach. As a Senior Research Fellow at Merck Research Laboratories, he studied a variety of therapeutic targets for which high throughput biochemical assays were developed. He has held the Herman and Margaret Sokol Professorship in Chemistry at Montclair State University and served as Department Chairperson of Chemistry and Biochemistry. During this time, he developed a new graduate course, "Biomolecular Assay Development" that emphasizes teaching of the drug development process, including laboratory and in silico molecular modeling techniques. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Assay and Drug Development Technologies and is a Section Editor of Current Opinion in Investigational Drugs. He has served seven times as a member of the review panel, "Assay Development for High Throughput Molecular Screening" (R03, R21) of the National Institutes of Health, Molecular Libraries and Imaging Initiative. He has currently published 45 peer reviewed articles and holds six U.S. patents. He is currently serving as Dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University and is continuing interdisciplinary research in drug discovery.