Dr. James G. Cappuccino received his undergraduate education at Seton Hall University, New Jersey and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Jersey. He held a research position at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital Center for Cancer Research from 1957 to 1969 where he conducted basic research in the chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases and nucleic acid metabolism of malignant tumors. Dr. Cappuccino's teaching experience spans 30 years, from a teaching assistantship at Rutgers University, to an assistant professorship at the Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, New York, to the positions of associate professor, professor, and Emeritus professor at Rockland Community College, New York. He has received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York, and has been recognized in Outstanding Educators of America and in American Men of Science. Dr. Cappuccino is also the author and co-author of numerous publications in the area of cancer research, and was cited as a leader in the treatment of cancer in Strike Back at Cancer by S. Rappaport, 1972. He is a member of the Society of Sigma Xi, and an Emeritus member of both the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society for Microbiology.