Paul Howard, Ph.D., is responsible for CEDAR laboratory facilities, equipment, and operations. He spent most of his research career studying signal transduction and transcriptional regulation. He also spent several years studying axonal transport of herpes viruses and cellular entry of cytomegalovirus before joining the Knight Cancer Institute and CEDAR. His experience in research has instilled a deep interest in collaborative team science and it is his goal to facilitate this at CEDAR. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Iowa.