I joined Northwestern University in August 2017 as a tenured Professor in Urology. I previously served as a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Washington. I obtained a PhD from the University of British Columbia in Canada followed by post-doctoral training in Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) and a faculty position at the University of Washington. My research focuses on understanding how cancer cells edit the immune system with the ultimate goal to develop effective immune therapy to control cancers.

Research in my laboratory include these specific aspects: 1) mechanisms of cancer immune evasion; 2) development of novel cancer immunotherapy; 3) Immune therapy-related mucosal toxicity; 4) mechanisms of cancer therapeutic resistance; 4) cancer biomarker discovery. Prostate Cancer is one of my lab's main focus areas. I am also researching the NKG2D axis in tumors which can be applied to a broad spectrum of cancer types and autoimmunity.