I am a physician scientist with training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and expertise in the development of biologics, vaccines, and small molecules. I have published approximately 170 manuscripts, review articles, and book chapters, mainly in the areas of anti-infective drug development, biomarkers, and immunotherapy. My publication indices are summarized here at Google Scholar. ​My career shifted from academia to industry in 2004, when I led a successful bid by PPD, a contract research organization, to win what at the time was the largest contract in the history of the US NIAID, managing the international trials of its Division of AIDS. I came to Pfizer in 2008 as the Therapeutic Area Clinical Lead for Infectious Diseases, where my responsibilities included clinical development of a wide range of antibacterials, antivirals, antifungals, sepsis therapies, and therapeutic antibodies. I provided oversight of trial designs, development plans, and regulatory strategies. I also served as clinical lead for the development of sutezolid, an oxazolidinone antimicrobial for the treatment of tuberculosis. Pfizer completed the first study of sutezolid in TB patients. ​In 2014 I joined the Aurum Institute as Chief Science Officer, where I am responsible for developing Aurum's program of biomedical research on TB and HIV. Our current projects include studies of host-directed TB therapy funded by the Gates foundation, the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), US NIH, the European Commission (Horizon 2020), and EDCTP. We also are studying individuals who have been heavily exposed to active TB cases but who have remained tuberculin skin test (TST) and IFNg (QFT) negative (funded by the Gates foundation and NIH). I also serve as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and am a member of the external scientific advisory board of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF).