Daniel Laskowitz

Dr. Laskowitz has remained active in both laboratory-based and clinical research. He received his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine in 2001, neurology residency training at the University of Pennsylvania, and his master of health science in clinical research in 2003. He attends on the stroke service and the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, and his perspective on drug development is shaped by the compelling unmet needs in the care of patients with acute and chronic brain injury. His research focus is on the role of genetic influences on neuroinflammatory responses, secondary neuronal injury and recovery from brain injury. Many of these cellular processes are common to both acute brain injury and chronic neurodegenerative disease, and preclinical results are translated to clinically relevant small animal models, with the ultimate goal of exploring new therapeutic interventions in the clinical setting of cerebrovascular disease, closed head injury and post-traumatic neurodegeneration.