I’m a research scientist. As you can see from my Google Scholar page, my postdoctoral work contributed to the development of HPV vaccines. I'm currently working on vaccines against a different family of cancer-causing viruses called polyomaviruses. When the pandemic forced me to work from home, I temporarily shifted into bioinformatic discovery of new virus families using online sequence databases. I’m also interested in food, evolution, and economics.

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I develop vaccines against cancer-causing viruses. Disclosure: I receive licensing royalties. Views expressed here are my own.