She completed her PhD at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain in 1990. Her primary research interests are to study lack of immune bactericidal effect during pulmonary tuberculosis, aerosol drug delivery of host directed and antimicrobial therapies and development of animal models. She studies the role of pulmonary dendritic and macrophages cell mediated immunity during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and has developed animal models to study efficacy of aerosol drug delivery. The ultimate goal of her studies is to develop aerosol therapies against mycobacterial infections that treat drug tolerant and resistant bacilli when combined with chemotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic approaches.