Dr. Benjamin D. Brooks is an Associate Professor and Clerkship Director of Research Electives in the Department of Clinical Education at Rocky Vista University. He has a PhD in Molecular Biology and an MBA from the University of Wyoming. He did his postdoctoral fellowship in Pharmaceutics/Bioengineering at the University of Utah. After his postdoctoral fellowship, he led the engineering team at Carterra to develop a high-throughput, Surface Plasmon Resonance instrument that drug companies use to screen antibody-based therapies. His research interests include vaccines, immunology, and protein biochemistry topics.