His laboratory is composed of outstanding graduate and undergraduate students that concentrate their studies on skeletal and neurological traits associated with Trisomy 21. He enjoys training the next generation of scientists and also teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in Biomedical Engineering and Genetics. He earned a B.S. in Molecular Biology from Brigham Young University, a Ph.D. in Immunology and Genetics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Developmental Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and four daughters as well as training for and running marathons.