Andrew obtained his Bachelors and Masters in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he focused his studies on cell and tissue engineering. During his time there, he worked in a neural engineering lab developing polymer films to spatiotemporally control stem cell adhesion. After graduating, he left Madison and began researching plant and human chimeric immune proteins in the Molecular and Cell Engineering Lab (MCEL) at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. 

After some time there, he finally landed in Jeff Miller's lab studying NK development, function, and differentiation in the context of cancer. Andrew works on eliciting changes in NK cell phenotype and understanding how these changes may apply to NK cell cancer-killing efficacy.