Biography
Current Position:
Associate Professor of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
Life Sciences Director and Visiting Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center, Scripps PARC
Previous Positions:
1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
1999 - 2002 Crystallography Group Leader, SSRL
1995 - 1999 Staff Scientist, Stanford University
1994 Visiting Scientist, New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA
1991 Visiting Research Student, Daimler Benz AG, Stuttgart, Germany
Education:
1995 Ph.D., Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept. of Health, and Physics Dept., State University of New York at Albany, NY
1993 M.Sc., Physics Dept., State University of New York at Albany, NY
1992 Vordiplom in Physics (B.Sc.), Julius Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Germany
Current Advisory Boards and Panels
since 2003: Member, Scientific Advisory Board and Consultant with significant financial interest, Lyncean Technologies Inc.
since 2002: Member, Resource Advisory Committee, National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy, TSRI.
since 2001: Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Alberta Synchrotron Institute, Canada
since 2001: Member, Scientific Advisory Board, NIH GM/CA-CAT, Argonne
since 2001: Member, Scientific Advisory Panel, NIH-NCRR BioCARS, Argonne
RESEARCH INTERESTS
*Developing novel therapeutics and diagnostics approaches with a focus on cancer and viral infections.
*Innovation and implementation of high-throughput biophysical and physical chemistry approaches in basic science and medicine.
*Proteomics and large scale biology discovery and technology programs using data centric experimentation approaches
*Innovative approaches to structural and functional genomics combining the tools and linking the experimental procedures of bioinformatics, molecular biology, structural biology and drug design |
