Daniel G. Taub, Ph.D.

Daniel is a neuroscientist with a passion for seeing neurons behave in real time. His undergraduate research career was spent researching the influence of industrial chemicals on brain development and degeneration in the laboratory of Dr. R. Thomas Zoeller at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He then worked as a Research Technologist in the laboratory of Dr. Eric A. Pierce and Dr. Qin Liu at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School where his research was on inherited retinal disease. Daniel attended graduate school at Boston University in the laboratory of Dr. Christopher V. Gabel where he discovered the essential role of  the post-translational modification O-Linked N-Acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) in the regenerative response in degenerating neurons. He then joined the lab of Dr. Clifford J. Woolf at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School where he examined the role of the cortex in encoding somatosensation and pain and how inherited gain-of-function mutations in sodium channels give rise to painful diseases. He rejoined Boston University as an Assistant Professor in 2026 where he opened his lab.