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Joel D. Oppenheim, Ph.D.

Joel Oppenheim is an American microbiologist and an Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the NYU School of Medicine.[1]

Early career

As a Scientist and Professor in the early 1970s, Oppenheim ran an NIH funded research lab at NYU School of Medicine for 20 years while training Ph.D. students, medical residents and postdoctoral researchers in microbiology. He also served as the Co-Principal Investigator and Associate Program Director of the Department’s NIH funded Infectious Diseases Training Grant. In 1994, Oppenheim was appointed the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Director of NYU’s prestigious Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, the largest full-time granting Ph.D. division of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science, which offers graduate programs in the basic medical sciences leading to the Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. degrees.[2] In 2010, Oppenheim served on the NYU School of Medicine’s M.D. and M.D./Ph.D. Admissions Committees and appointed Chair of the Ph.D. Admissions Committee. While Dean, Oppenheim’s major accomplishments included: the creation of one of the first “umbrella” structured graduate programs which offers students interdepartmental and interdisciplinary training; the initiation of an aggressive national recruitment program which resulted in a 250 percent increase in total applicants, a 600 percent increase in U.S. applicants, a 2000 percent increase in the number of underrepresented minority applicants, and a 1800 percent increase in the number of underrepresented minority matriculates (who now make up 17 percent of the graduate student population).[3] Other accomplishments include: the initiation of teaching scientific ethics and grant writing courses at NYU School of Medicine for all graduate students, postdoctoral and clinical fellows; the creation of NYU’s Postdoctoral Program, which was established to improve the quality of life and educational experience for postdoctoral fellows; and, the organization of “What Can You Be With a Ph.D.” fairs, the largest continually running graduate and postdoctoral career fair in the country.[4]

Professional activities

Oppenheim was one of the initial founding members of numerous prestigious academic associations including the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) GREAT Group (1994) and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) Science Alliance (2002). He has served on many national advisory committees involved with graduate education, including NIH, National Science Foundation (NSF), American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Leadership Alliance, grant study sections (National Institute of General Medical Sciences [NIGMS], NSF, Sloan Foundation), as a reviewer of numerous National Research Council and National Academy of Sciences reports and as NYU’s representative to the AAMC GREAT Committee. He has been an invited speaker on graduate education issues at: Leadership Alliance Summer Research Symposia; SACNAS National Meetings; NIGMS National Minority Research Symposia (ABRCMS); the California TRIO/McNair Directors Conference; the NIH UGSP Scholars, Postbaccalaureate, and NIH Academy programs; at multiple NSF meetings; and at Brown University, Cornell University, Harvard Medical School, Sloan Kettering and University of Pennsylvania. In 2010, Oppenheim was the recipient of the American Association of the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) Life Time Mentoring Award, one of the nation’s highest mentoring awards “For extraordinary leadership to increase the number of African and Hispanic Americans in the Ph.D. Biomedical workforce.” [3] He is also one of the founding members of the Leadership Alliance in 1992, which in 2010 received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Engineering and Mathematics. According to the organization’s website, “The Leadership Alliance, founded at Brown University in 1992 as a partnership of 23 institutions, came together to develop underrepresented students into outstanding leaders and role models in academia, business and the public sector. Today, this consortium has grown to more than 30 institutions and private industry who have provided research and networking experiences to over 4,000 young scholars.”

Selected Articles by Joel D. Oppenheim

1)	Oppenheim, J.D., Amin, A.R. and Thorbecke, G.J. (1990)  A rapid one step purification procedure for murine IgD based on the specific affinity of Bandeiraea (Griffonia) simplicifolia-1 for N-linked carbohydrates on IgD.  J. Immunol. Meth. 130:243-250.

2)	Lawrence, R.M., Huang, P., Glick, J., Oppenheim, J.D. and Maas, W.K. (1990)  Expression of the cloned gene for enterotoxin STb of Escherichia coli.  Infect. Immun. 58:970-977.

3)	Goldie, P. Roth, E., Oppenheim, J.D. and Vanderberg, J.P. (1990) Biochemical characterization of Plasmodium falciparum hemozoin.  Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 46:584-596.

4)	Gaur, N.D., Oppenheim, J.D. and Smith, I. (1991)  The sin gene Bacillus subtilis, a regulator of alternate developmental processes, codes for a novel DNA binding protein. J. Bacteriology.  173:678-686.

5)	Maas, R., Oppenheim, J., Saadi, S., Fuchs, T. and Maas, W.K. (1991)  Isolation and properties of the RepA1 protein of the IncFII replicon, RepFIC.  Molec. Microbiol. 5:927-932.

6)	Amin, A.R., Tamma, S.M. L., Oppenheim, J.D., Finkelman, F.D., Kieda, C., Coico, R.F., and Thorbecke, G.J. (1991). Specificity of the murine IgD receptor on T cells is for N-linked glycans on IgD molecules.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 88:9238-9242.

7)	Viitanen, P.V., Lorimer, G.H., Seetharam, R., Gupta, R.S., Oppenheim, J., Thomas, J.O., and Cowan, N.J. (1992) Mammalian mitochondrial chaperonin 60 functions as a single toroidal ring. J. Biol. Chem. 267:695-698.

8)	Lee, T.H., Wisniewski, H.-G., Klampfer, L., Oppenheim, J.D., Vilcek, J. (1993)  TSG-6: A novel secretory protein inducible by TNF or IL-1 in fibroblasts and mononuclear cells. IN. Tumor Necrosis Factor. (ed. W. Fiers, and W. Buurman) Basal, Karger, pp 90-95.

9)	Coutavas, E. Ren, M., Oppenheim, J.D., D'Eustachio, and Rush, M.G. (1993) Characterization of proteins that interact with the cell-cycle protein Ran/TC4. Nature 366:585-587.

10)	Amin, A.R., Lakshmi-Tamma, S.M., Swenson, C.D., Kieda, C.C., Oppenheim, J.D., Finkelman, F.D., and Coico, R.F. (1993) The Immunoaugmenting properties of murine IgD resides in its Cg1 and Cg3 regions; potential role of IgD-associated glycans.International Immunology 5:607-614.

11)	Amin, A.R.,and Oppenheim, J.D. (1993) Preparation of Fab g fragments using immobilized proteases. in Current Protocols in Immunology. John Wiley & Sons, New York 1993 Suppliment

12)	Tian, G., Lim, D., Oppenheim, J.D. and Maas, W.K. (1994) Explanation for Different Types of Regulation of Arginine Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli B and Escherichia coli K12 Caused by a Difference Between Their Arginine Repressors. J. Mol. Biol. 235: 221-230.

13)	Wisniewski, H-G., Burgess, W.H., Oppenheim, J.D. and Vilcek, J. (1994) TSG-6, an arthritis-associate hyaluronan binding protein, forms a stable coomlex with the serum protein Inter-a-inhibitor. Biochemistry 33: 7423-7429.

14)	Ren, M., Villamarin, A., Shih, A., Coutavas, E., Moore, M.S., LoCurcio, M., Clarke, Virginia, Oppenheim, J.D., D’Eustachio, and Rush, M.G. (1995) Separate Domains of the Ran GTPase Interact with Different Factors to Regulate Nuclear Protein Import and RNA Processing. Mol. Cell. Biol. 15: 2117-2124.

15)	Oppenheim, J.D., Redman, D.N., and Spragg, J. (2000 updated annual online) “Tips on preparing for and applying to graduate school. Monograph published by the Leadership Alliance” (>10,000 copies printed and distributed to date: presently online at http://www.theleadershipalliance.org/)

16)	Awosogba, Temitope; Betancourt, Joseph R; Conyers, F Garrett; Estape, Estela S; Francois, Fritz; Gard, Sabrina J; Kaufman, Arthur; Lunn, Mitchell R; Nivet, Marc A; Oppenheim, Joel D; Pomeroy, Claire;

17)	Yeung, Howa. 'Prioritizing health disparities in medical education to improve care'. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2013 1287(1):17-30 (# 371282)

Reference

1.	Department of Microbiology Faculty. NYU Grossman School of Medicine. https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/microbiology/faculty.

2.	The Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. NYU Grossman School of Medicine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_Institute_of_Graduate_Biomedical_Sciences.

3.	American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2010 Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement. https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2010/december/joel-oppenheim-wins-2010-aaas-lifetime-mentor-award.html.

4.	Center for Brains Minds & Machines. People. https://cbmm.mit.edu/about/people/oppenheim.