PRESENT ACADEMIC RANK:

Professor and Scientific President

EDUCATION:

1987 - 1990:

M.Sc., Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

1991 - 1994:

Ph.D., University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

2020 - 2022:

MBA, Tulane University, USA

1994 - 1996:

Postdoctoral Fellow. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

1996 - 1999:

Fellowship, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.

APPOINTMENTS:

1999 - 2005:

Assistant Professor. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

2005 - 200:

Associate Professor. Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, TX

2008 - 2009:

Professor. Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, TX

2009 - 2014:

Tyler Endowed Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, and Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS

2009 – 2014:

Eminent Scholar,Kansas Bioscience Authority

2013 - 2015:

Scientific President, Kansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO

2015 - 2016:

Professor, Division of Pharmacology, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO

2016 - 2019:

Professor, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, and Department of Genetics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS:

1981:

Merit award in B.Sc.

1982 – 1984:

National Merit Scholarship M.Sc.

1984:

Merit award in M.Sc.

1988 – 1990:

Bursary, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

1994 – 1996 :

Fogarty International Fellowship, National Institutes of Health

1996 – 1999:

National Research Council Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, USA

2000 – 2004 :

Career Development Award, Department of Defense, US Army, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program

2009:

Eminent Scholar, Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA)

2016:

Scholar, Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium (LCRC)

RESEARCH INTERESTS :

Drug discovery and development, cancer therapy, prevention, diabetes, nutrition, stem cell, autophagy, non-coding RNA, nanotechnology, angiogenesis, metastasis, pharmacology, toxicology, biochemistry

TEACHING:

ContentHuman Biology, Pharmacology, Principles of Drug Actions, Molecular Cell Biology, Histology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Zoology, Botany, Horticulture, Physiology, Cancer Biology, Toxicology, Endocrinology, Genetics, Cancer Therapeutics, Anatomy

SERVICES:

Served in various national and international committees, and also as an advisor to several government agencies

MEMBERSHIPS:

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Association for Cell Biology (AACB), Society for Basic Urological Research (SBUR)

BOOK EDITOR:

5

JOURNAL EDITOR / EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER:

15

FUNDING SUPPORT:

National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense US Army, Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundations and others

PATENTS:

3

BOOK CHAPTERS:

15

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

150

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED SEMINARS:

200