As the principal investigator, she led the NSF-funded ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) Catalyst project at SUNY Oswego from 2010 to 2013 to prepare the ground for institutional transformation for addressing the obstacles to recruitment, retention and advancement of STEM women faculty. Her current research in the area of chemistry/ biochemistry focuses on clinical/ biochemical/chemical investigations of medicinal plants used to treat diabetes in traditional medicine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) aiming at the development of plant extract-based anti-diabetic products and the discovery of new anti-diabetic compounds.