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After I finished my undergraduate degree at Auburn University I worked as a technician here at UAB for a year and a half. I entered the Pathology Program after my first year in the IBS program. I am currently serving as a Senator and Secretary in the UAB Graduate Student Association. When I'm not in the lab or in class I spend time with my wife and our two dogs and can usually be found doing work around our house or glued to the television during football season.
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Hometown:
Pelham, AL
Undergraduate/Masters Institution:
Auburn University (WAR EAGLE!)
General Research Interests:
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I work in the lab of Dr. Ralph Sanderson. The long-term goal of the Sanderson lab is to determine how heparan sulfate regulates the microenvironment of bone homing tumors, such as myeloma, and to use that knowledge to design new cancer therapies. My project focuses on therapeutically targeting an enzyme that modifies heparan sulfate, heparanase, with a novel heparin based heparanase inhibitor. I am testing our inhibitor alone and in combination with conventional chemotherapeutics in several different mouse models of myeloma to identify treatment strategies that can be translated into the clinic. The mouse models we currently use include a syngeneic model, SCID-subcutaneous model, SCID-hu model and an experimental metastasis model.
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