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Professional Training and Experience

• PhD in Neuroscience and Structural Biology Program, Cornell University
• Postdoc, Structural Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute
• Senior Scientific Project Manager, Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health
• Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
   

Research Interests

• Structure-based vaccine design and therapeutic development against emerging infectious diseases
• Mechanism of henipavirus entry and protective humoral immune recognition
• Eph receptor-tyrosine-kinase mediated signaling in cancer and viral infection

Selected Awards and Honors

2021   NIH Director's Award (Outstanding efforts in the pursuit of efficacious vaccines to prevent COVID-19)

2019   NIAID Merit Awards (Advancing HIV Vaccine Research)

2019   NIH Earl Stadtman Investigator (Semi-finalists)
2019   MSC Award for Excellence in HIV-1 Vaccine Research