B.S and Ph.D in microbiology and immunology from McGill University (Canada) Post-doctoral training in cellular, molecular and developmental biology at Harvard University Executive training in management at the Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania Experience Dr. Tolias is Director of the university-wide Center for Healthcare Innovation and Professor and Interim Director of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Biomedical Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of over three dozen grants, contracts, awards and honors, the co-founder of several diagnostic and biotechnology companies and holds board and scientific advisory memberships on scientific journals, corporations, non-profits and universities. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Institute of Genomic Medicine, Research Director of the Autism Center and Professor of Pediatrics at the New Jersey Medical School. Previously, he served as Worldwide Vice President of Advanced Research and Technology Assessment, at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics - a Johnson & Johnson company - and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Rosetta Genomics. Earlier in his career, he was an Associate Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at the New Jersey Medical School, an Associate Member of the NY Public Health Research Institute and earlier as an Assistant Member. Honors & Awards New Jersey R&D Council 2007 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award for Emerging Technologies Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) Centennial Fellowship. (Ranked 4th on list of top Canadian MRC-sponsored junior research faculty) (1990-91) MRC Fellowship (1989-90) MRC Fellowship (1987-89) Ph.D conferred from McGill University with ‘Distinction’/Dean's Honors list (1987) Recipient of the 1987 McGill Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology W. Yaphe Award (top graduating Ph.D student) MRC Studentship (1988-87) Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship (1984-85) NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (1983-84) Quebec Provincial FCAC Studentship (declined and accepted another) (1983-84) McGill University Faculty of Medicine Internal Award (declined and accepted another) (1982-83) NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (1982-83) McGill University Graduate Faculty Summer Research Fellowship (1982) B.Sc conferred from McGill University with ‘Distinction’/ Dean's Honors list (1981)

STRUCTURAL AND COMPUTATIONAL (COMPUTER-BASED) DRUG DISCOVERY ASSAY DEVELOPMENT AND ROBOTIC DRUG SCREENING GENE CLONING, PRODUCTION AND PURIFICATION OF THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS AND TARGETS CELLULAR ASSAYS AND 3D TISSUE ENGINEERING PERSONALIZED MEDICINE: GENOMICS, MODELING, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE

Wenting Zhang; Yexin Gu; Qiaoling Sun; David S Siegel; Peter Tolias; Zheng Yang; Woo Y Lee; Jenny Zilberberg. (2015). "Ex Vivo Maintenance of Primary Human Multiple Myeloma Cells through the Optimization of the Osteoblastic Niche", PLOS ONE, In press.

Jingmao Chi, Thet Zaw, Iliana Cardona, Mujtaba Hosnain, Neha Garg, Heather R Lefkowitz, Peter Tolias, and Henry Du (2015). "Use of Surface-enhanced Raman scattering as a prognostic indicator of acute kidney transplant rejection", Biomedical Optics Express 6, (3) |DOI:10.1364/BOE.6.000761.

Tolias, P. (2014). "A Possible Future for the Pharmaceutical Industry.", Personalized Medicine. 11 (8), 723-725.

Zhang, W., Lee, W.Y., Siegel, D.S., Tolias, P. and Zilberberg, J. (2014). "Patient-Specific 3D Microfluidic Tissue Model for Multiple Myeloma.", Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods. doi:10.1089/ten.tec.2013.0490.

Healy, D., Bechthold, K., and Tolias, P. (2014). "Antidepressant-Induced Suicidality: How Translational Epidemiology incorporating Pharmacogenetics into Controlled Trials can Improve Clinical Care", Personalized Medicine, 11 (1), 79-88.

Toruner, G.A. and Tolias, P. (2013). "Highlights from the Latest Articles in Disease Association Using Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization", Personalized Medicine . 10 (1), 17-18.

Tolias P. (2012). "The need to assess drugs selected from cancer genomic data prior to patient treatment ", Personalized Medicine . 9 (5), 463-466.

Toruner, G.A. Dermody, J. and Tolias, P. (2012). "Chromosomal microarrays: Influential players in the diagnosis of developmental disorders ", Personalized Medicine . 9 (2), 167-169.

Toruner, G.A. and Tolias, P. (2011). "Highlights from the latest articles on the genetics of autism.", Personalized Medicine . 8 (5), 509-511.

Tavares P, Dias L, Palmeiro A, Rendeiro P, and Tolias P. (2011). "Single Test Parallel Assessment of Multiple Genetic Disorders", Personalized Medicine. 8 (3), 375-379.

Tolias, P and Toruner, G.A. (2010). "The Clinical Utility of DNA Testing", Personalized Medicine . 7 (5), 461-464.