He completed his graduate studies in microbiology at Andhra University, India, and had postdoctoral training in radiation oncology and critical care at the UT Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, respectively. He joined the OUHSC as a tenure-track faculty member in 2006 and has been a highly-productive investigator. His strength as a researcher is further evidenced by the number of publications he has as an independent investigator.