Co-director of the University of Texas Medical Branch Laboratory of Regenerative and Nano-medicine- Associate Director of Research and Operations for the Galveston National Biocontainment Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
- Associate Professor of the Departments of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Microbiology & Immunology at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
- Ph. D. in Microbiology and Immunology
- M. A. in Cell Biology
- Recipient of R&D magazine’s Top 100 Inventions in 2007 for research work developing an artificial immune system/artificial human bone marrow analog
- 20 years of experience in histology of human disease and experimental animal models of infectious and toxicological diseases especially those that relate to lung function
- – Extensive expertise in the isolation and characterization of adult stem cell populations from animal and human tissues
including bone marrow and the lung - – Experience using adult and embryonic stem cells as well as tissue engineering techniques to produce human ex-vivo
organoids/tissue constructs to use as human model systems to study disease pathogenesis - – Recent publication highlights the use of acellular whole lung scaffolds to produce lung tissue
- – Extensive expertise in the isolation and characterization of adult stem cell populations from animal and human tissues