Board of Governors Professor Dipak K. Sarkar
Dipak K. Sarkar, a distinguished professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, has been named by the Rutgers University Board of Governors as a Board of Governors Professor on December 9. The professorship was established to recognize exceptional scholarship and accomplishment by a faculty member at the full professorial rank. Sarkar is also director of the endocrine program at SEBS and director of the biomedical division of Rutgers’ Center of Alcohol Studies. His research focuses on understanding how stress promotes infection, cancers and alcohol-related diseases. He and his team also evaluate the feasibility of cell therapy, gene therapy and tissue-specific gene targeting procedures to understand and prevent stress-related problems and cancers in normal and alcoholic patients. Read more at Rutgers Today.
