BS, PhD, Stony Brook University. Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH/Rocky Mountain Laboratories (NIAID). Research Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Immunology and microbiology researcher with special interests in vaccine development against emergent viral pathogens and designing immunotherapy against cancer. Focusing on inducing antibody responses to mediate effector functions to enhance immune responses. Author of papers on improving immune responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Ebola virus infections and on NKT cell-based immunotherapies against tumors. Recipient of numerous travel grants from the Keystone Symposia and the American Association of Immunologists. Guest editor for the journal Vaccines and part of the Early Career Reviewers (ECRs) for the new investigators in NIH review system. SLC, 2025–