Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Radiology (by courtesy)
Co-Founder Chronus Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Director Center for Advanced Study of Drug Action
PhRMA Foundation Sabbatical Fellow, 2017
Peter Tonge obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biochemistry at the University of Birmingham and then moved to the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in 1986 as a NATO-SERC postdoctoral fellow. After spells at NRC as a Research Associate and a Research Officer, followed by an appointment as a Staff Investigator at The Picower Institute for Medical Research, he joined the faculty at Stony Brook University in 1996 where he is currently a full Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He is also a Professor in the Department of Radiology (by courtesy) and Associate Editor for the American Chemical Society journal ACS Infectious Diseases.
Peter Tonge is currently the Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Drug Action, Co-Director of the NIH-funded Chemical Biology Training Program and Cluster Lead of the Biomolecular Imaging Cluster. He is also the co-founder of Chronus Pharmaceuticals Inc which is creating superior disease diagnostics and drug candidates with improved efficacy by exploiting deep knowledge of metabolic pathways, focused metabolite detection, and slow-binding drug:target kinetics.
Education and Training
1982 University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; B.Sc. Biochemistry (Hons. 1 st class).
1986 University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Ph.D. Biochemistry.
1986-1988 National Research Council of Canada, Canada; SERC/NATO Postdoctoral Fellow.
Positions and Employment
1988 – 1993 Research Associate, NRC Canada, Division of Biological Sciences, Ottawa
1993 – 1994 Research Officer, NRC Canada, Division of Biological Sciences, Ottawa
1995 – 1996 Staff Investigator, The Picower Medical Research Institute, Manhasset, NY
1996 – 2000 Assistant Professor, Dept. Chemistry, Stony Brook University
2000 – 2004 Associate Professor, Dept. Chemistry, Stony Brook University
2004 – present Professor, Dept. Chemistry, Stony Brook University
2009 – 2020 Co-Director, Chemistry Biology Training Program, Stony Brook University
2009 – 2017 Director, Translational Experimental Therapeutics Lab, Stony Brook University
2014 – 2023 Associate Editor, ACS Infectious Diseases, American Chemical Society
2014 – present Professor (by courtesy), Department of Radiology, Stony Brook University
2014 – present Co-Founder Chronus Pharmaceuticals Inc, Long Island High Technology Incubator, Stony Brook, NY
2015 – 2020 Cluster Lead, Biomolecular Imaging Faculty Cluster, SBU
2017 PhRMA Foundation Sabbatical Fellow, Genentech Inc., San Francisco, CA
2018 – present Director, Center for Advanced Study of Drug Action, Stony Brook University
2019 - SUNY Distinguished Professor
2019 - 2023 Chair, Department of Chemistry
