Dr. Stanley Katz, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Microbiology, died on June 2, 2025. He was 94.

Dr. Stanley Katz served on the Rutgers University faculty for almost 50 years. He earned his B.S. at Upsala College in New Jersey and a M.S. in Organic Chemistry (1955) and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University (1959). He joined the faculty of Rutgers University in 1958 as an Assistant Research Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1967. Stan served as Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology from 1979 to 1990. He retired in 2005 after 47 years on the Rutgers faculty.

Stan’s main research interests were in agricultural and food microbiology, specifically in the development of analytical methods to measure antibiotic residues in feeds, animal tissues and food products. This was a theme that ran through his career. Antibiotic residues in agriculture and spread of antibiotic resistance has since become a major global concern. Over his career Stan mentored several graduate and undergraduate students in his laboratory. Most recently, before his retirement, he taught the undergraduate courses Food Regulations and Emerging Diseases, and a graduate course on applied microbiology.

We will miss him.

More information:

www.crabielparkwest.com/obituaries/stanley-katz