Jeffrey Thompson, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Thompson
Division/Department
Kinsley School of Engineering, Sciences and Technology
Associate Professor, Biology
Contact Information
Appell Life Sciences, Room 228

Meet Jeffrey Thompson

Education

  • Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University Milton S. Hershey College of Medicine
  • B.S., Elizabethtown College

Courses

  • Introduction to Molecular Biology
  • Molecules, Genes and Cells
  • Biochemistry I
  • Biochemistry II
  • Senior Thesis

Research Interests

  • Developing "magic-bullet" medicines that specifically deliver anti-cancer medicines into tumors and avoid surrounding healthy cells
  • Structural and functional properties of neurotoxic proteins and protein receptors

Service

  • Biology Club Advisor
  • Member of the Committee for the Health Professions