Dan Arking Co-Leader, Biological Mechanisms Core

Dr. Dan Arking is a Professor of Medicine at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. He studies genetics of complex disease, cardiovascular disease and sudden cardiac death, autism and development and implementation of novel GWAS analytical tools.

Dr. Arking received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland in College Park and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before joining the faculty. He is a member of the American Society for Human Genetics, the Association for the Eradication of Heart Attack, and the Simons Foundation Autism Research Gene Advisory Board.