Joseph Rucker

Biography

 Joe Rucker is VP of Research & Development and a co-founder of Integral Molecular. Dr. Rucker is an inventor of Integral Molecular’s founding technology, the Lipoparticle, and was the first to use such particles as biochemical reagents. Since joining the company full-time in 2006, he has led the development of new applications for Lipoparticle technology, including its use for generating novel antibodies against membrane proteins.  Dr. Rucker’s expertise focuses on membrane proteins, antibodies, and viruses. He is an author on over 30 publications and has published in journals including Cell, Science, and Nature. He is an inventor on five of the company’s patents and is the principal investigator on many of Integral’s NIH-funded projects. Dr. Rucker earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.A. at Haverford College. As a post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania, he was involved in leading the discovery of the GPCR CCR5 as an HIV coreceptor.

Research Interest

 membrane proteins, antibodies, Cell science,and viruses,chemistry