• Professor of Chemistry, Boston University, 1997-present
• Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, 2001-present
• Sabbatical leave in the laboratory of Dr. Ferran Azorin, Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, Spain, Spring 2006
• Sabbatical leave in the laboratory of Professor Robert Kaptein, Bijvoet Center for NMR Spectroscopy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1994-1995
• Professor of Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biology and the McCollum-Pratt Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, 1991-1997,
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biology and the McCollum-Pratt Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, 1988-1991
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biology and the McCollum-Pratt Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, 1985-1988
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, 1982-1985
• NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 1979-1982
  Advisor: Professor Stephen J. Lippard
• Ph.D. in Chemistry, Stanford University, 1979
  Advisor: Professor Keith O. Hodgson
  Dissertation Title: Structures of Metal Complexes in Biological Systems: EXAFS Studies of Blue Copper Proteins, Xanthine Oxidase and Vanadocytes
• Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (cum laude), UCLA, 1973

Honors and Awards

• Herbert Sober Award, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1998
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 1996
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1988-1993
• Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1988-1992
• Research Career Development Award, National Institutes of Health, 1987-1992
• Searle Scholar, 1984-1987
• National Research Service Award, National Cancer Institute, 1979-1981

Current Appointments

• Faculty of 1000
• Advisory Committee, Center for Synchrotron Biosciences, NSLS Brookhaven/Case Western Reserve University
• Editorial Advisory Board, Chemistry Central Journal

Previous Appointments

• Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Boston University, 1997-2005
• Acting Director, Bioinformatics graduate training program, Boston University, 2001
• Advisory Committee, Science Advancement Programs, Research Corporation, 2001-2008
• Executive committee, Bioinformatics graduate training program, Boston University, 1998-2008
• Board of Trustees, The Sage School, Foxboro MA, 2002-2007
• Chair, JBIC Publications Committee, Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2000- 2003
• Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 1999–2002, 2004-2006
• Editor, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 1995–1999
• Biomedical Research and Research Training Subcommittee A, NIGMS, NIH, 1999-2003
• Special Study Section for Chemistry/Biology Interface Training Grants, NIGMS, NIH, 1993
• Special Study Section for Biotechnology Training Grants, NIGMS, NIH, 1989–90
• Molecular Biochemistry Review Panel, National Science Foundation, 1994–2001
• Ad-hoc member, Bioorganic and Natural Products Study Section, NIH, 1992, 1994
• Ad-hoc member, Metallobiochemistry Study Section, NIH, 1991
• Program Chair, Molecular Biophysics Subgroup, Biophysical Society, 1999
• Chair, Nominations Committee, Division of Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, 1997–1998
• Co-Director, Institute for Biophysical Research on Macromolecular Assemblies, The Johns Hopkins University, 1990–1997
• Academic Council of the Homewood Schools, The Johns Hopkins University, 1992–1993, 1996–1997
• Co-organizer, UCLA Colloquium on “The Inorganic Chemistry-Molecular Biology Interface,” Taos, New Mexico, 1990
• Governor’s Council on Toxic Substances, State of Maryland, 1988–1991