Lars research for his Ph.D. focused on elucidating the biological role of nitric oxide (NO) sensing pathways in the bacteria Shewanella oneidensis and Vibrio choleraein. Currently he is working as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Jeffery Kelly at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, CA. He is studying how protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum can be modulated to develop new therapeutic approaches for a broad set of systemic amyloid diseases.