He completed three years of anatomy and medicine at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. Then he pursued his undergraduate work at the University of Illinois between 1938-1941. Specializing in bacteriology, he received his Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Illinois in 1942. He did graduate work at the University of California from 1943-1945 and later at the University of Mississippi, researching mostly in pharmacology. He is the author of many scientific papers including “The Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer”, and “The Nitrilosides in Plants and Animals”. He was the science director of John Beard Memorial Foundation.