In addition to being involved with
BPRU clinical research protocols, I've also gotten involved with several pharmaceutical company studies and have acted as the clinical research coordinator on those projects.
The overarching goals include (i) diversify the workforce, (ii) recruit the most talented researchers, (iii) improve the quality of the training environment, (iv) balance and broaden the national perspective in setting research priorities, (v) improve the ability to recruit subjects from diverse backgrounds
into clinical research protocols, and (vi) improve the nation's capacity to address and eliminate health disparities.
It thus contributes to the exploration of NK cells, and more generally of innate immune cells, in connection with specialised biology examinations as well
as clinical research protocols.
He also chairs one of four ethics panels that review
all clinical research protocols at UCSF.
Currently, I chair one of four ethics panels that review
all clinical research protocols conducted at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), including those by investigators at Gladstone.