2008 - Present   Associate Dean/Chair of Admissions, Sanford-Burnham Graduate Program

2007-present  Director, Program of Inflammatory Disease Research, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.

2004-2009 Associate  Professor, Program of Inflammatory Disease Research, Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center & Program of Signal Transduction, Cancer Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA.

2009-present Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego.

Education
1993-1997 Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Genetics
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. (Dr. Klaus Rajewsky)

9/87 - 7/92 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Ph.D. awarded July 21, 1992
Advisor: Dr. Stephen H. Clarke

9/82 - 12/86 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences
Graduated with Honors in Biochemistry

Outside Interests
Swimming, running, pilates, good food & company, & environmental activism.