Rutgers Cancer Institute appoints co-program leader
Stephen K. Burley, MD, DPhil, has been named co-program leader of the cancer pharmacology research program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Burley is director of the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, founding director of the Institute of Quantitative Biomedicine, director of the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank, and a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University.

Stephen K. Burley
“Dr. Burley’s presence brings a wealth of insight into protein structure and drug discovery that will greatly inform precision medicine oncology, as well as many other program areas at Rutgers Cancer Institute,” Eileen White, PhD, Rutgers Cancer Institute’s deputy director and associate director for basic science, said in a press release.
Burley will work with co-program leader X.F. Steven Zheng, PhD, a professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, to develop more effective cancer treatments through the discovery of new anticancer agents and strategies.