Education

• BS, Nutritional Sciences, Purdue University, 1978
• MS, Population Studies, University of Texas School of Public Health, 1980
• PhD, Pharmacology, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1985

Research Interests

• Elucidation of cellular and molecular mechanisms used to achieve specificity in growth factor/cytokine-specific changes in gene expression
• Pathophysiology associated with chronic non-infectious inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and certain cancers
• Interleukin-1 signaling using basic cell biology and genetic approaches
• Functional significance of mPLK/IRAK-1 in the context of TNF(alpha) signaling and development of cancers
• Determination of the molecular mechanism through which SIMPL mediates the synergistic enhancement of p65 activity