Thomas O. Daniel Biographical File

Dr. Thomas O. Daniel received his M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1978. He completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, then returned to UT Southwestern for a clincal nephrology fellowship followed by a post doctoral research fellowship in the department of Molecular Genetics with Nobel laureates Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein. During his tenure as an assistant professor of Medicine with University of California at San Francisco he got involved in the miscrovascular endothelium and the diseases that target it at the Cardiovascular Research Institute. He later joined Vanderbilt as faculty in 1987 and has become a professor or of Medicine and Cell Biology to later in 1999 being appointed as the program director of the Host-Tumor Interactions Program at the Vanderbilt Cancer Center and associate director of the Medical Scientist Training Program.