He received his Ph.D. in the institute of molecular microbiology and biotechnology from Westfaelische Wilhelms-University of Muenster, Germany. He did his postdoctoral training at institute of genetic, biochemistry and microbiology of University of Nuerberg-Erlangeng, Germany, and at McLaughlin Research Institute for Biomedical Science Great Falls, Montana. His area of expertise is cellular and molecular biology, basic immunology and inflammation, animal modeling, respiratory bacterial infections.