"I believe I’m not going to stop learning until I’m brain dead."

"Of course you also fail a lot more, because you pursue crazy ideas. But in the process of failing, you find new direc…"

"I know that if I don't do it, the chances of some body else doing it is slim to none."

"Broadly, my objective is to make therapeutics. I use structural biology, biophysics, and computation to study protein…"

"It chose me. I really wanted to make drugs. So when I started grad school, my goal was to be an organic chemist and s…"

"My academic journey started when I decided to run away from Nigeria—I’m joking! I was supposed to go to medical schoo…"

"I’ll put it this way: my dad didn’t realize he was mentoring me; he thought I was just coming to hang around in the l…"

"Doing research at an HBCU is amazing because the students are hungry. They come with excellence in so many different …"

"I’ve done work on glioblastoma. When I was in industry, I worked primarily on HIV. Right now I’m working on vaccines …"

"Oh, it’s everything. I think the ability to see connections where people don’t normally see connections is so importa…"