Research interests
How does a normal cell become cancerous? What factors enable cancer cells to grow rapidly, evade immune surveillance and metastasize to distant sites? How does the tumor microenvironment evolve during this process? Why are the extant anti-cancer therapeutics largely ineffective? How can we develop more effective therapeutic strategies that will improve clinical outcome in patients with metastatic disease? These are some of the broad questions we seek to address in our laboratory.Teaching interests
BIOL 444/644 - Development and CancerBIOL 303 - Cell Biology
BIOL 499L - Undergraduate Research Seminar (Independent Study)
Education
- Postdoc, Molecular and Cellular Biology — Baylor College of Medicine (2019)
- Postdoc, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry — Yale University (2015)
- Ph D, Biological Sciences — University of Maryland Baltimore County (2011)
- BS, Biotechnology — Bharathidasan University (2005)