Irving W. Wainer PhD, DHC

Professor Irving W Wainer is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and Senior Investigator in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation at the National Institute on Aging/NIH. He received his PhD degree in chemistry from Cornell University and did postdoctoral studies in molecular biology (University of Oregon) and clinical pharmacology (Thomas Jefferson Medical School). He worked for the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a Research Chemist where his duties included the FDA’s program on the stereoisomeric purity of drugs, and held positions at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, at McGill University as Professor and Head, Pharmacokinetics Laboratory, Department of Oncology, and at Georgetown University as a Professor of Pharmacology.