Robert L. Danner, MD
Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, NIH, DHHS
Bethesda, Maryland

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Dr. Danner attended Johns Hopkins University and later Cornell University Medical School. He completed his residency at The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center and his fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the Clinical Center, NIH, and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH. Dr. Danner is currently a Senior Investigator in the Critical Care Medicine Department at NIH, where his research interests include septic shock and multiple organ failure, nitric oxide, and functional genomics of critical illness and injury.

Dr. Danner's laboratory has had a long-term interest in septic shock mediators as they relate to developing new therapeutic strategies. Investigations have spanned many approaches including bench-top molecular biology, animal models, and clinical studies. Recent projects have focused on nitric oxide and nitric oxide synthases as agents of gene regulation in sepsis and inflammation. Currently the laboratory is investigating the host response in model systems related to critical illness and injury at the level of gene expression using high-density oligonucleotide arrays.