Education
Ph.D. Dept. of Animal Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
M.S. Dept. of Animal Science, Iowa State University Ames, IA
B.S. Agricultural Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
One of 100 most Influential Georgians (Georgia Trends, 2002)
Chairmen of the GRA Applied Genomics Cluster (2002)
Emtech Bio Scientific Advisory Board member(2002)
Harold W. Gegenheimer Innovation Award (2003)
CURO Advisory Board, the University of Georgia undergraduate research program (2001-present)
Editorial board of Domestic Animal Endocrinology (2003- 2005)
Editorial board of Journal of Animal Reproduction (2002-2006)
Hoag Award (2004)
AGR Brothers of the Century Award (2004)
Editorial board of Stem Cells (2005)
Inventor of the Year at the University of Georgia (2005)
Editorial Board of Experimental Biology and Medicine (2006)
Governor of Georgia appointee to the Cord Blood Stem Cell Commission (2006)
Georgia Biomedical Partnership Award for Community Service (2007)
Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Early Career Faculty Award (2007)
BIO Guidance on Animal Biotechnology Stewardship (2009)
Scientific Advisory Board for NIH Roadmap project on Mapping the Human Epigenome (2009)
Most Influential Georgians notable (Georgia Trends, 2010,2011,2012)
D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor Award from the University of Georgia, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (2013)
Academic Entrepreneur of the Year (2015)
Distinguished American Award UGA chapter National Football Foundation (NFF)(2016)
Scientific Advisory Board for FDA (2016- current)
Industry Growth Award, Georgia Bio (2017)
Elected to NAI Fellow status (2017)
Research Interests
Exosome-based regenerative therapies for the treatment of CNS and neurodegenerative disorders, namely Stroke and TBI
Selected Publications
Grant Support
2010-2020, Science and Technology Center, NSF, $50,000,000 Co-Pl $1,395,000
2015 – 2020, Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems, NSF, $675,000, Co-PI
2016-2020, Science and Technology Center, NSF, $25,000,000, Co-PI $750,000
2016-2021, Interactions Between Engineered Nanomaterials and the Neuroendocrine System, NIH, $2,250,000, Pl
2017-2022, Creating endogenous Stem Cell Niches to Promote Functional Brain Repair Post-TBI, NIH, $1,572,735, Co-PI $78,636
2017-2022, An Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing, NSF, $3,064,501, Pl
