He has earned his PhD degree from University of Cincinnati in 2010. He has joined Center for Advanced Medical Imaging Sciences at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and extended his research into the field of multifunctional nanocarrier systems for imaging, targeting and therapy. His current research interests include imaging cell death with multimodal vital fluorochromes and detecting extracellular DNA and RNA using fluorochrome-functionalized nanoparticles as probes for detection and manipulation of these nucleic acids.