He received his B.S. in microbiology from the Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University where he worked on polyoma viruses in Michele Fluck’s laboratory. Ben received his Ph.D. in Oncological Sciences from the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. His graduate work in David Jones’ laboratory focused on the mechanics of TGF-b signaling in cancer models and in zebrafish. From there, Ben moved to Seattle for a post-doctoral position in Randall T. Moon’s laboratory where he helped develop proteomic and functional screening strategies to interrogate the WNT signaling pathway. Ben’s laboratory at UNC uses an integrative platform of mass spectrometry-based proteomics, functional genomics and computation to study how alterations in WNT and KEAP1/NRF2 signal transduction contribute to human disease.