I grew up in Farmington, New Mexico while doing a lot of camping, hiking, fishing and occasional episodes of pyromania.

I earned BS and MS degrees in Microbiology at Brigham Young University and a PhD in Immunology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

I am currently an associate professor in the Department of […]

Cancer is not a single disease. It is a large set of diseases that are very different in outcome. However, all forms of cancer start with one or more genetic changes or mutations that give rise to transformed cells. These transformed cells, can in turn go through other changes that can give […]

One of my favorite Calvin and Hobbs cartoons has Calvin running from Susie with a surgical mask on, yelling: “Cooties, cooties!” Susie responds by telling Calvin not to worry because stupidity produces antibodies. Susie was right. Stupidity does produce antibodies. Like me, you can probably think of a number of […]