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I love discovering something completely new and surprising and making connections between molecules and processes that were previously unknown.

To understand how bacterial pathogens manipulate host defenses to establish infections.

My research focuses on Alzheimer’s disease.

To elucidate how defective brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling in the brain leads to diminished appetite control and the emergence of affective disorders.

My research seeks to understand the function and mechanism of angiogenin, and to apply this knowledge to improve human health.

Research in my laboratory is focused primarily on pattern formation - the developmental processes that determine the morphological features and cell types of tissues, organs and entire organisms.

As someone who started into research from the clinical care aspect, the dream is always to find something in the lab that can affect how we treat patients.

I hope to identify mechanisms by which healthy neuronal networks are transformed to generate epilepsy.

The ultimate goal of our research is to cure cancer. However, a more realistic goal is to develop new therapeutic strategies for cancer treatment.