He is a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar, and his areas of interest include gene therapy, stem cell biology, blood and marrow transplantation and immunotherapy. He is President and Co-founder of Expression Therapeutics, a privately owned biotechnology company that is developing therapies for hemophilia A patients. His laboratory has a significant interest in translational research focused on cancer and bleeding disorders, and he has been involved in the submission of several projects leading to investigational new drug applications.