Dr. Kwiatkowski received his undergraduate training in Biology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, where he graduated with Honors. He then completed his graduate and PhD education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Kwiatkowski participated in post-doctoral training as a Fellow at Stanford University, Stanford, California. Upon completion of his work in 2012 at Stanford, Dr. Kwiatkowski came to Pitt.