Before joining the faculty at McGill in 2012 he was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. His postdoctoral research, in the Sailor lab at UCSD and in collaboration with the Ruoslahti lab at SBMRI, focused on developing nanomaterials to aid in medical imaging. In 2007 he received his PhD from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University working with Prof Albena Ivanisevic.