Work Email Address:
DDawson@mednet.ucla.edu
Lab Number:
310 825-0618
Office Phone Number:
(310) 267-2799
Laboratory Address:
Factor 8-240
Mailing Address:
Dept. of Pathology
Mail Code 173216
10833 LeConte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Office Address:
Factor 8-240J
Los Angeles, CA 90095
| Affiliations |
| Associate Director, UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program |
| Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| Member, Cell & Developmental Biology GPB Home Area, Immunity, Microbes & Molecular Pathogenesis GPB Home Area, JCCC Signal Transduction and Therapeutics Program Area, Molecular Pharmacology GPB Home Area |
| Faculty, Cellular and Molecular Pathology PhD Program |
David Dawson is a cell and molecular biologist and practicing surgical pathologist who has served on the UCLA School of Medicine faculty since 2006 when he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Dawson earned his B.S. in Zoology at Duke University. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Northwestern University, where he worked on angiogenesis. Dr. Dawson completed his residency training in Anatomic Pathology and subspecialty fellowship in gastrointestinal pathology in the Department of Pathology at UCLA. From 2002 to 2006 he was a combined clinical instructor in surgical pathology and postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Pathology at UCLA, where he worked on epigenetics and lymphomagenesis. Dr. Dawson's research currently involves basic and translational research on pancreatic tumorigenesis.