Dan Goldowitz

Dr. Dan Goldowitz, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus at in the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) (Faculty of Medicine, Dept Medical Genetics) and is a senior scientist at UBC’s Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT). He is also a member of the Brain, Behaviour and Development Theme at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHRI). He led the successful application for a Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) in brain development — Kids Brain Health Network, (formerly NeuroDevNet). Goldowitz was also a co-PI on the CIHR-funded Strategy for Patient Oriented Research Network, CHILD-BRIGHT (Child Health Innovations Limiting Disability-Brain Research Improving Growth Health Trajectories), where he leads the Training Program to build capacity in Patient Oriented Research.

 

Goldowitz received his PhD in psychobiology at the University of California at Irvine with postdoctoral work at Harvard Children’s Hospital in Boston, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. He has held professorial roles at Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia and the University of Tennessee Health Science Centre in Memphis, before coming to UBC as a full Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neurogenetics.

 

For an up-to-date list of publications by Dr. Goldowitz, please see PubMed.

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