Currently, his laboratory focuses on the role of functional transcriptomics (RNA modifications) in the regulation of coding and non-coding RNAs in vascular inflammatory diseases and investigates the clinical value of novel biomarkers in cardiovascular risk stratification. He has won numerous research scholarships and awards including the Else Kröner Memorial Scholarship in 2013 by the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation and the American Heart Association Young Investigator Award of the Council on Functional Genomics and Translational Biology in 2015.