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metabolic activities in perfused rat livers; to the late Professor Ronald

Thurman (1979–1982) who provided me with a research associate profes-

sor position in his group at the Department of Pharmacology, School of

Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where I developed

the mini-oxygen electrode method to complement the micro-light guide

method, using both of which we were able to demonstrate experimentally

for the first time the long-predicted metabolic gradients across the liver

lobules; to Professor Robert Snyder (1982–1990) who offered me in 1982

the first tenure-track academic position at the Department of Pharmacology

and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University,

Piscataway, where I initially (1982–1987) performed teaching in pharma-

cology and experimental toxicology research using the micro-light guide

and mini-oxygen electrode methods to elucidate the mechanisms underly-

ing acetaminophen (Tylenol®) toxicity in perfused rat liver and later

(after ~1987) turned almost exclusively to theoretical and computational

cell biology research which I am currently continuing with my Pharm D

students at Rutgers; to the late Professor Rajendra K. Mishra (1983–1990)

who invited me to the International Colloquia on Living State held in

Bhopal, India, in 1983 and again in Shillong, India, in 1985, attending both

of which was instrumental in my formulating the Bhopalator in 1985 and

the Shillongator in 1991, the models of the living cell and the Universe,

respectively, based on the principle of self-organization advanced by the

late Professor Prigogine (1917–2003) and his colleagues; to my wife

Jaehyun Lee (1991–present) without whose love, IT assistance, and far-

sighted encouragement the writing of the book probably would have been

impossible; to my son, Douglas Sayer Ji (2016–present), the founder of

GreenMedInfo.com, whose deep understanding of my life-long research

results and encouragement of my on-going bio-theoretical research are the

constant source of my joy and inspiration.

I also would like to thank many of my colleagues at Rutgers for their

direct and indirect support for my research activities, including Professors

Debra Laskin, Kenneth Reuhl, Robert Snyder and Frederick Kauffman, and

Deans John L. Colaizzi and Joseph A. Barone, and my Pharm D and non-

Pharm D students, especially Mr. Kenneth So, whose computational work

performed as a pre-med student in pharmacology elective course was

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