Danilo A. Tagle, Ph.D.

Dr. Tagle is Program Director for Neurogenetics at 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 an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow in Human Genetics at 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 NHGRI since 1993 and has been involved in the positional cloning of genes for Huntington’s disease, ataxia-telangiectasia and Niemann-Pick type C disease.