Christopher Molloy

Christopher J. Molloy, PhD, RPh is an American scientist and pharmacist. He currently serves as Senior Vice President (Office of Research and Economic Development) and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.. His responsibilities include oversight for university-wide research and management of the many institutional offices and resources that support Rutgers’ research and economic development activities.

Molloy joined Rutgers in 2007 as dean of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. In 2011, he was appointed interim provost for biomedical and health sciences and successfully managed the complex integration of Rutgers and most of the former University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Molloy served as interim chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences from July 2013 until November 2013.

He received his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Rutgers and his doctoral degree (pharmacology and toxicology) from the Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences–New Brunswick. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute. 

Prior to joining Rutgers, Molloy held senior research and management positions at Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development L.L.C., 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals Inc., and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute.