Dr. Fatah Kashanchi is currently the director of the Laboratory of Molecular Virology located at GMU- Sic-Tech campus. He received his PhD in 1991 in Microbiology with emphasis on retrovirus gene expression. He then moved to Washington, DC for his Postdoctoral and Research Associate fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health from 1991 to 1998. Dr. Fatah Kashanchi was tenured at the George Washington University Medical School as a full Professor in 2004. He moved to GMU as director of research in 2010 and stayed in that position until 2013. Dr. Fatah Kashanchi's research interests include human retroviruses, biodefense viral agents, cell cycle, host-pathogen interactions, small molecule and peptide inhibitors against transcription machinery, RNAi machinery and its components, proteomics and metabolomics, humanized mouse models, and extracellular vesicles, including exosomes.