1979 B.S. Physics, Louisiana State University;1985 M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; 1987 Ph.D. Medical Physics/Medical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1989-1994 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Stanford University; 1994-2000 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics and Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of California-Irvine: 1995 Searle Scholar Award; 1995 Beckman Young Investigator Award; 2000-2004 Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics and Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of California-Irvine; 2003 UCI Midcareer Research Award; 2004 UCI College of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award; 2004-2007 Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, and Dept. of Biomedical Engineering,University of California-Irvine; 2005-2007 Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, and Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California-Irvine; 2007-current, Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; also Professor & Chair, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering; Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2010; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014