Education
University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow – Mentors: Zena Werb and Andrei Goga
Project: Microenvironmental Control of Tissue Homeostasis and Cancer
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, 2009
Dissertation: Proteolytic Regulators of Inflammation
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Diploma in Molecular Biology, 2004
Awards
NIH-Pathway to Independence (K99/R00), National Cancer Institute, 2014
NIH-“Earl Stadtman Investigators“ Program Finalist, 2014
Hans Hench Prize for Clinical Immunology, Leipzig, Germany, 2010
Avrion Mitchison Prize from the Schering Foundation, Berlin, Germany, 2009
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009
Outstanding Paper Award from the Wekerle Foundation, 2009
Feodor Lynen Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2008
Travel Awards from Keystone (2013), AACR (2012), International Proteolysis Society (2011, 2007) and Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation (2007)