Dr. Kenneth J. Soprano earned his A.B. in Biology from Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Microbiology from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. After completing 4 years of post-doctoral research in Tumor Virology at the Fels Institute for Molecular Biology and Cancer Research at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia he was appointed as a faculty member in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Temple Medical School. Dr. Soprano spent 30 years as a faculty member at Temple Medical School, and 7 years as the Temple University Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies. During this time, Dr. Soprano maintained an NIH funded research laboratory which focused on elucidation of the role of oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and cell cycle regulatory genes in regulating the growth of breast and ovarian tumor cells. He trained 25 Ph.D. students and 5 M.S. students and published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. In addition, Dr. Soprano taught Virology and Molecular Biology to graduate students and second year medical students and was a recipient of the Christian R. and Mary P. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.   

Dr. Soprano came to Chestnut Hill College in 2008. He served for 4 years as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. As a member of the Biology Department, he teaches Molecular Biology, Medical and Molecular Virology, Introduction to Forensic Science, Biological and Medical Ethics, Senior Seminar in Biology and Chemistry, Cancer Therapeutics-The Cure: From Bench to Bedside. He is also Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), and the Middle States Reaccreditation Committee. Dr. Soprano has served as a member of the Tenure and Promotion Committee, the COVID-19 Task Force, the Academic Restructuring Task Force, the Strategic Planning Committee and the Presidential Search Committee. 

Dr. Soprano is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, the Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, Molecular Biology Reports and The Women's Oncology Review. In addition, he has served as an ad hoc reviewer for many scientific journals including Cancer Research, Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, Virology, Oncogene, and the Journal of Cellular Physiology. Dr. Soprano has also served as a member of a number of grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command Congressionally Directed Research Programs, National Cancer Institute Insight Awards to Stamp Out Breast Cancer and the Merit Review Board for Basic Sciences and U.S. Veterans Administration.