Manago is a mathematician, philosopher, composer--musician, writer, molecular biologist, and former professor in biomedical sciences at a dozen New York universities inclusive of the Health Science Center at Brooklyn (Downstate Medical Center of S.U.N.Y.), City University of New York, Long Island University, New York Institute of Technology, and Pratt Institute. He did his doctoral studies at New York University, and earned his M.S. at the Vincentian Fathers' St. John's University (New York).