He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He went on to pursue his Post-doctoral studies first at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and then at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dr. Skibbens joined Lehigh University in 1999. Since then, he has served on numerous panels including review panels for the NIH, NSF, ACS and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs for the Dept of Defense. Dr. Skibbens’ lab focuses on issues of chromosome segregation and cell cycle regulation – research supported by awards from the NIH, NSF and the Komen for the Cure Breast Cancer Foundation.