Dr. David A. Toke received his B.S. in Biology (1980), M.S. in Zoology (1985) from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology (1996) from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Graduate School of Biomedical Science. He did a three year postdoctoral fellowship in lipid metabolism at Cook College a division of Rutgers University. He is currently an Assistant Research Professor and Laboratory Manager in the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University, and an Associate Managing Director of the Rutgers University Cell & DNA Repository (RUCDR). He is a Co-Investigator on active U.S. National Institutes of Health awards for the NIMH Center for Collaborative Genetic Studies on Mental Disorders, and the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, (NIDDK) Genetics Repository, and Project Manager for the NIDDK-Genetics Repository. He has served as local councilor for the New Jersey Chapter of Microbiology and is currently on the National Council for the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER). He has over twenty years of direct cell culture experience in human, eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms, and is proficient in Cytogenetic and Biochemical Genetic analyses of human derived cells and tissues.


Life Sciences
145 Bevier Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Room # B414 
Phone #: (732) 445-1221
FAX: (732) 445-2457
Email: dcs@eohsi.rutgers.edu