Here he leads a group of experimental immunologists mainly involved with antiviral defense and single cell gene expression in a multidisciplinary project. This project involves both experimental and theoretical science and comprises groups from 4 institutions (Mount Sinai, Yale, Princeton and Ohio State). He is also the director of the immune assay core for a U19 funded project. He obtained PhD in Immunology/Biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (Boku) while working at the Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research. He got his postdoctoral training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the fields of virology and immunology. His publications are mainly in the fields of virology, immunology, dermatology and gene expression analysis.