His research at SAHMRI includes studies on the regulation of protein synthesis nutrients and hormones; cancer cell biology; and the molecular mechanisms involved in diet-induced inflammation, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Much of this research focuses on protein kinases that control the protein synthesis machinery, i.e., mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K) and the MAP kinase-interacting kinases (MNKs).