A dedicated Basic and Translational Scientist, his research focus is on understanding the fundamental interactions between radiation and the immune system, and on identifying strategies to combine radiation with immunotherapy. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 Grant focused on adaptive immune responses in Head/Neck cancer and a Co-Investigator on a prestigious NIH Moonshot U01 Grant evaluating neo-antigen T-cell responses in Head/Neck cancer. He is also the PI of a randomized phase II clinical trial translating his preclinical laboratory work into patients as well as an early phase clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of combining immunotherapy and SBRT in early stage lung cancer.