November 1999: U.S. Department of Energy's Defense Programs Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award.

• Research Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of New Mexico Medical School 1/97 to 6/98) and Research Associate, Department of Pathology at UNM Medical School (93-96). Molecular mechanisms of leukocyte target recognition in the human immune and inflammatory responses. 
  
  
• Scientist, ASTRA Biomedical Research Center, Bangalore, India (1989-1992). Parasitology: Developed a cell-line from the tapeworm Taenia Solium. Heterologous gene expression in yeast and mammalian cells.
  
  
• Lecturer, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. Department of Surgical Research, (1988-1989). Role of growth-factors in tumorigenesis, neovascularization, and the metastatic spread of tumors.
  
  
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute at MIT, Cambridge, MA. (1984-1988). Molecular and cell biology of growth factors in cancer. Participated in the cloning of the first anti-oncogene.
  
  
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Biochemisty, Boston University School of Medicine, (1979-1984).
  
  
• Technician, Honeywell-Avionics Division in Minniapolis, Minnasota, January-August 1979.
  
  
• Research Assistant, Hematology Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (1976-1979).
  
  
• Teaching Assistant, Astronomy Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (1974-1976).