Areas of Interest
Protein folding diseases; Hsp90, Hsp70; molecular chaperones; nitric oxide synthase; ubiquitination and protein quality control; reactive metabolites and mass spectrometry.
Honors & Awards
National and Institutional
- Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006
- Henry Russel Award for Scholarly Research and Teaching, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI , 2002
- Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, 2001
- New Investigator Award in Toxicology from the Burroughs Welcome Fund, 1997
- Research Starter Award from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Foundation, 1996
- Best Paper Award in Drug Metabolism and Disposition from ASPET (co-authored with Minor J. Coon), 1990
- Postdoctoral Fellowship from the John E. Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, 1987-1989
- Predoctoral Fellowship Award from The Upjohn Company, 1983-1984
- Horace H. Rackham Minority Fellowship, 1982-1986
- N.I.H. Predoctoral Fellow in Pharmacological Sciences, 1982
Credentials
Education
Ph.D., Pharmacology, University of Michigan
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Post-Doctoral Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1989-1995
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chemical Pharmacology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1987-1989