[2] He is a published academic writer and has been cited by his peers for his work in cancer research and infectious disease.

He is also a novelist and author of science fiction (Daughter of Time Trilogy)[3][4] and thrillers (The Ragnarök Conspiracy, Extraordinary Retribution).

His Ph.D. thesis was titled Structural Studies of the von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor and the Oncogene Chaperone Hsp90 Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, completed in the laboratory of Nikola Pavletich.

In 2001, he was hired as an assistant professor and made the Head of Laboratory of Structural Microbiology at the Rockefeller University.

He is currently Head of the Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity at the German Cancer Research Center.