Professional Experience

2010 - present, Assistant Professor, Tumor Cell Biology, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2010 - present, Faculty Member, City of Hope's Irell & Manell Graduate School of Biological Cancer, Duarte, CA

2009 - 2010, Research Associate, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA


Education and Training

2003 - 2009,  Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA, Cancer Biology, Postdoctoral Fellow

2003, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Experimental Medicine, Ph.D.


This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 02/12

Honors and Awards

2011, Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, Pew Charitable Trusts

2011, Stand Up To Cancer Innovative Research Grant recipient

2011, Kimmel Scholar Award, Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research

2011, Marni Levine Memorial Research Career Development Award, Stop Cancer Foundation

2007,Career Development Award (Special Fellow), The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

2006, AACR-Pennsylvania Department of Health Fellowship in Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research

2004, Two-year postdoctoral fellowship, Lymphoma Research Foundation

2003, Dean’s Honor List, McGill University

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