Over 20 years of experience in cell-signaling, with a focus on the regulation of cell growth.
Background includes training in immunology at Weill Cornell School of Medicine, where he contributed substantially to the study of mTOR complexes
Holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Joined the laboratory of David M. Sabatini in 1999 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical research at MIT, Cambridge, MA.
Joined the Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2006, continuing his studies on deregulation of cell growth in human cancers.