Randy J. Zauhar

Associate Professor, Biochemistry

Education:

Ph.D, molecular and cell biology, Penn State University

M.A., molecular and cell biology, Penn State University

B.S./B.A., physics/anthropology/Eastern Washington University

Expertise:

Computational chemistry, computer-aided drug design, molecular biophysics, molecular modeling, software development

Background:

Before coming to University of the Sciences in 1998, Dr. Zauhar was a senior research investigator at the University of Missouri and a scientist at Tripos Inc. in St. Louis, MO. Previously, he was a research associate and the director of the Center for Computational Biology at Penn State University. His teaching experience includes lecturing courses in molecular biology techniques, biological science, biochemistry, molecular modeling and computational biology. He also developed and teaches a course on computer-aided drug design, which represents the focus of his current research efforts.

He has extensive experience with finite element methods and other numerical algorithms, scientific and graphics programming in FORTRAN, C and PERL on microcomputers, workstations and mainframes. He is skilled in the development and implementation of original computational methods for biological molecules, involving interactive computer graphics and numerical analysis techniques.

Dr. Zauhar is a member of the Biophysical Society and the American Chemical Society.