Dr. Neiditch received his B.S. at Rutgers where his earliest research employed analytical techniques to study chemical properties of non-nutritive sweeteners. He received his Ph.D. at Baylor College of Medicine where he studied the molecular mechanism of VDJ recombination in the laboratory of Dr. David Roth in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Neiditch was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Frederick Hughson in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Here, Dr. Neiditch carried out studies of bacterial cell-cell communication, which continues to be a primary area of research in his lab.