She received her Ph.D. in Physiological Chemistry in Germany. After her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, she became a faculty member in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Maine until she relocated to the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware. She has over 30 publications focusing on skeletal development and nanomedicine. Her lab is interested in identifying new targets and therapies for the treatment of osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and breast cancer.