Student Profiles

Daniel graduated from Brown University with an A.B./Sc.B in Economics and Neuroscience.  While at Brown, he was a member of the varsity baseball team and researched the formation of Martian gullies in the Planetary Geosciences Group.  During a leave of absence from Brown, Daniel founded and was Executive Director of a 501c3 non-profit, TRB Baseball, which provided sports, training, college advising, and educational opportunities for inner-city youth in Durham, North Carolina.  Since graduation, he has been an NIH Post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award Fellow in the Section on Clinical Genomics and Experimental Therapeutics (CGET) at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), where his research has focused on leveraging population genetics to examine the causes and consequences of alcohol abuse and alcohol use disorder. 

His research at the NIAAA has resulted in seven co-authored publications and six first-author publications.   Daniel has also had the opportunity to present his work at conferences in the United Kingdom (Mendelian Randomization Conference, University of Bristol), and at the World Psychiatric Genomics Conference (Anaheim, California). As an NIH-OxCam Scholar, Daniel will use multi-omic and genetic approaches to examine how epigenetic and environmental risk factors impact disease risk.