He completed his PhD at UC Davis in Comparative Pathology with an emphasis in HIV in 2007. He followed this with a postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland focused on CD4 T cell memory responses during influenza infections. The Verhoeven lab is currently focused on pediatric immunology (both innate and adaptive), immunometabolism, comparative immunology using large and small animal models of respiratory pathogens, and respiratory viral/bacterial vaccines.