Dan became senior editor at Drug Discovery News in 2022. He earned a PhD in biochemistry from SUNY Buffalo and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the USDA and Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining DDN, he edited for Massive Science. His work has also appeared in The Daily Beast, VICE, GROW, and Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, among other publications. Dan is most interested in writing about how molecules collaborate to create body-sized phenomena.
The Alzheimer's disease research field has been beset by failed clinical trials and fraud. But researchers remain hopeful that a better understanding of the disease’s broader picture will lead to treatments.
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