Dr Cynthia Koziol-White

Dr Koziol-White, Department of Pharmacology, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Cynthia Koziol-White is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick in the Department of Pharmacology at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. She is also a faculty member in the Rutgers Institute of Translational Medicine and Science (RITMS).

Dr Koziol-White obtained her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology from University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied signalling mechanisms underlying survival and inflammatory functions of eosinophils in the context of asthma. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships at University of Pennsylvania, one in mucosal immunology (studying a role for surfactant protein D in respiratory inflammation and airway function and the other in respiratory pharmacology (examining mechanisms of muscle contraction and relaxation in various inflammatory environments).

In 2016 Dr Koziol-White was appointed to an Instructor position at Rutgers University, promoted to Assistant Professor 2019, and promoted to Associate Professor in 2025.

Cynthia’s research interests include respiratory pharmacology and inflammation, with specific emphasis on understanding how GPCR signalling in airway smooth is altered in the inflammatory milieu in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and virus-induced exacerbations of these obstructive airways disorders. She is interested in how structural cells of the airways modulate the function of one another, and how this translates to alterations in responsiveness to therapeutics in the context of obstructive lung diseases.

Updated 10 July 2025