She performed initial training at the CDC in Atlanta, GA, identifying correlates of sepsis in children in sub-Saharan Africa, and later received her M.P.H. in international health and Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at Tulane University. Working with Dr. Clements as a postdoctoral fellow and later as faculty, she has served as project manager and coinvestigator for dmLT-adjuvanted vaccine studies with ETEC, polio, and tuberculosis in mice and nonhuman primates. She has now been investigating LT-based adjuvants for over 15 years. Her lab has continued this inquiry on both optimal use and immunologic mechanisms of LT-based adjuvants (dmLT and LTA1) or related proteins for disease therapies.