[1][2] His dissertation was titled Neuronal activity and membrane turnover in rat brain.
[1] Farber was an assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University.
In 2004, he became a staff researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science in the department of embryology.
[3] In 2018, he was awarded a 5-year $3.3 million NIH grant for researching novel pharmaceuticals and diseases associated with altered levels of lipoproteins.
[4] In 2002, together with Jamie Shuda he developed an outreach program named BioEYES which allowed students to gain hands-on biology experience by studying live zebrafish in the classroom.