Her research interests span nanotechnology and nanomedicine, specifically design of theranostic nanoparticle systems for concurrent imaging and therapy of disease. Prior to joining the Brooklyn College faculty, she was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University, and postdoctoral fellow in the Nanomedicine Laboratory in the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.