Brian joined Rice University’s Office of Technology Transfer in August 2007. Brian joined Rice from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, where he worked in the field of Biochemistry and Biophysics as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Brian’s background includes extensive experience in the fields of Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, and Marine Ecology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Biomedical Sciences where he was a Dean’s Research Award Scholar as well as a National Library of Medicine – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Fellow; and his B.S. from the University of Houston in Biology where he graduated cum laude with membership in the Honor’s College and was a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Scholar.