
Education and Training
- Research Scientist, Surgery, Duke University, 2003 - 2010
- Instructor, Microbiology, Meharry Medical College, 2002 - 2003
- Associate Director, Molecular Biology Core Facility, Meharry Medical College, 2001 - 2002
- Research Associate, Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, 2000 - 2001
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Microbiology And Immunoloty, Vanderbilt University, 1998 - 2000
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1994
Selected Grants
- New Non-Nuceleotide Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors for Drug Resistant HIV Strains
- Small Molecule HIV-1 Entry Inhibitor with Novel Mechanisms of Action
- Aloperine derivatives as novel anti-influenza agents
- Plant Anti-HIV Agents
- Gnidimacrin and its derivatives against HIV-1 latency
- Quinolizidines as Novel HIV-1 Entry Inhibitors
- Regulation of PD-1 as a strategy against chronic HIV-1 infection
- Betulinic acid derivatives as anti-HIV agents
- Small Molecules that Regulate Proteasome Activity
- Identification of anti-HIV agent(s) from Sophora Alkaloids
- TM-SU Interaction in the Native HIV/SIV Env