James M.

I’m James. I graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.S. in Biology. During my time there, I was bitten by the research bug, which led me to pursue a Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy—an old word for drug discovery—at the University of Illinois Chicago. My dissertation focused on understanding exactly how certain antibiotics kill bacteria. I then completed my postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health, where I focused on RNA biology, before coming to Nashville to continue my caree…