Thomas Louis Daniel (born 1954) is an American

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, Joan and Richard Komen Endowed Chair of Biology at

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, and leads the Daniel Lab. He was the interim director of the

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Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering. Since 2006, he has served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the

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. Thomas graduated from the

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with a BS and MS, and from Duke University with a PhD, where he studied with Steven Vogel and Stephen Wainwright. He was the Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow in Engineering Sciences at

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where he studied with Ted Wu until 1984.

Awards

* 1996 MacArthur Fellows Program

References

External links

Daniel Lab Website
University of Washington faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Duke University alumni Living people MacArthur Fellows 1954 births {{US-biologist-stub