Faculty Bio

Jeffrey Thompson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biology

Education

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

Credentials

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

Courses

• Biochemistry I & II
• Biology I
• General Biology
• 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