Prabhas Moghe, Ph.D.

Effective October 2020, Dr. Moghe was appointed as Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (EVPAA) for Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, the second ranking administrative role at Rutgers, after the President.  Previously, Dr. Moghe served as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Research & Academic Affairs and the inaugural Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation at Rutgers University-New Brunswick campus.
 
Dr. Moghe has been a scientist, educator, and entrepreneur-scholar at Rutgers.  In recognition of his scholarship and research leadership, Professor Moghe was promoted to a Distinguished Professorship at Rutgers in 2013.  From 2014-2018, Professor Moghe was appointed as the first Research Director for the Rutgers School of Engineering’s Alliances and Partnerships with Biomedical and Health Sciences.  Dr. Moghe has advised 29 PhD students to date, and secured funding over $20M, resulting in over 125 peer-reviewed journal publications, >250 conference presentations and >100 invited seminars (Google scholar: 7500; h-index 45, 7/2024).  
 
The Moghe lab currently works on nano therapeutics for Alzheimers' disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.  They previously showcased the ability of nanoprobes to discern multi organ cancer metastases (Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2017).  The Moghe team has advanced a new class of polymer nanotherapeutics for treatment of cardiovascular disease (PNAS, 2015).  Additional innovations from the Moghe lab include the design of innovative shortwave infrared imaging probes for deeper tissue imaging of micrometastatic lesions (Nature Communications 2013), a new concept of high content imaging informatics of stem cell phenotypes (PNAS, 2010; Scientific Reports, 2017), and an advance in the reprogramming and brain-transplantation of human induced neurons within 3D devices from induced pluripotent stem cells (Nature Communications 2016; selected by the NIH-NIBIB as one of its scientific highlights for 2016).