• 2004-present Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

• Ph.D. from the University of Michigan with Prof. Martha L. Ludwig, 1992
• American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University with Prof. Thomas A. Steitz, 1992-1997
• Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, 1998-2004

• Dziewiatkowski Award for most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1992
• Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, University of Chicago, 2004

Activities

• Reviewer for APS general user program and the American Cancer Society General Mechanisms in Cancer Committee
• Affiliations: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American Crystallographic Association and the RNA Society

• Deciphering the molecular basis of action of RNA chaperones and RNA endonucleases by combining biochemical and X-ray crystallographic studies.