Postdoctorate resesarch – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Langer Lab
1979-1982 Biochemical Engineering and Bioorganic Chemistry

Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University
1979 Organic Chemistry

M.A. The Johns Hopkins University
1977 Organic Chemistry

B.S. Marquett University
1975 Chemistry

Professional Experience

• Ann and John H. Broadbent Senior Constellation Chair in Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Biology and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 2003 - present
• Acting Director, Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 7/06-8/08
• Adjunct Professor, Orthopaedics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, NY, 1/15
• Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, NY, 7/05- present
• F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, 7/99-8/03
• F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry and Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, 5/96-8/03
• Professor of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, 5/90-8/03
• Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego, Cancer Center and the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, 1/92-9/92
• Associate Professor of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, 7/86-4/90
• Assistant Professor of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa (UI), 7/82-6/86
• Industrial Consultant in the area of biocatalysis, biopolymers, carbohydrate chemistry and drug delivery, 1/81-present
• Research Associate, Biochemical Engineering, Department of Applied Biological Sciences and Harvard-MIT Joint Program in Biomedical Research at the Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 6/79-6/82
• Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, 9/75-5/79