I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.