Areas of Interest
The molecular basis for the regulatory transactions that transcription factors engage in as they assemble in the vicinity of specific genes and how these operations are integrated to yield the final transcriptional output.
Honors & Awards
Basic Sciences Teaching Award in Pharmacology, University of Michigan Medical School, 2010
Gelman Innovator Award (Inaugural recipient), University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center, 2007
University of Michigan Biological Scholars, 2000
Special Fellow Leukemia Society of America, 1997-2000
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Cancer Research, 1994-1996
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellow, 1989-1994
Credentials
Education
Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 1994
B.Sc., National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1987
Post-Doctoral Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco