Program Director In Neurogenetics
CurrentDanilo Tagle, Ph.D., is Program Director for Neurogenetics at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), where he is involved in developing programs in genomics and proteomics for basic and translational research in inherited brain disorders. Dr. Tagle obtained his Ph.D. in molecular biology and genetics from Wayne State University in 1990. He was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Research Service Award (NRSA) postdoctoral fellow in human genetics in the laboratory of Dr. Francis S. Collins at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining NINDS in 2001, Dr. Tagle was an investigator and Section Head of Molecular Neurogenetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) since 1993 and was involved in the positional cloning of genes for Huntington disease, ataxia-telangiectasia, and Niemann-Pick type C disease.