After receiving a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Springfield, he was a practicing Clinical Laboratory Scientist from 1994 to 1996. In 2003, he received a Ph.D. from the Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His research at UIC focused on the interaction of monocyte integrin receptors with novel extracellular matrix proteins expressed in atherosclerotic lesions. From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Schober was a Drug Discovery Scholar and American Heart Association postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, where his research focused on investigation of cytoskeleton dynamics and cell motility. His current research at SIUE focuses on cancer cell biology and biomedical engineering approaches to cancer diagnosis and treatment. Select Publications