B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors distinction in science from the University of Pennsylvania. Designated a Benjamin Franklin Scholar.
M.D. and Ph.D degrees, Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, joint M.D./Ph.D program (full scholarship from the National Institutes of Health, Medical Scientist Training Program).
Ph.D in cell and molecular biology.
Post-doctoral work in biophysics and biochemistry.
Former research associate faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases.
Accolades:
Bausch and Lomb award for achievement in science and mathematics.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant recipient.
John Clark Prize for outstanding research from the Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
My current research involves sports medicine and human performance, including cartilage regeneration, joint trauma, muscle development, nutritional and metabolic biochemistry, and anti-aging.
I have helped set up human performance centers and combat sport gyms on 4 different continents and for the military. I have also served as a personal physician and scientific consultant for over 100 professional athletes (including over 80 UFC/Bellator fighters and 5 world-titlist boxers), 4 pro sports teams, 2 Olympic training centers, and 5 nutritional supplement/exercise equipment companies.
I am the CEO of FirstLook Medical, a startup company founded in 2019 that focuses on artificial intelligence applications in medicine, notably cancer detection. I have been involved in the founding of five startup-technology companies, ranging from drug and vaccine design to biomechanics.
I serve as a consultant for research projects involving basic cancer biology and translational oncology.
I spent the first twelve years of my scientific career designing drugs and vaccines against malaria and tuberculosis, two of the major causes of child mortality in developing countries. I also conducted basic science research and drug design for cancer and AIDS.
I hold multiple patents for drug and vaccine designs against the world’s deadliest diseases, and I have published original research in the leading scientific journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemistry, GENE, and Journal of Bacteriology
