Daniel Colón-Ramos
Daniel A. Colón-Ramos | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Duke University (PhD) |
| Awards | NIH Pioneer Award HHMI Faculty Scholar AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement Sloan Research Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience Developmental biology Cell biology |
| Institutions | Stanford University Yale University Marine Biological Laboratory University of Puerto Rico |
| Thesis | The reaper tales: molecular mechanism of inhibition of translation and induction of apoptosis by a novel family of reaper-like proteins (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sally Kornbluth |
| Other academic advisors | Kang Shen |
| Website | Research website |
Daniel Alfonso Colón-Ramos is the McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Yale University School of Medicine, where his lab studies the cell biology of the synapse during development and learning. He is also the founder of the nonprofit organization Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR), a collaborative network for people interested in science and Puerto Rico. In 2020, he was named to the National Academy of Medicine.