Dan Appella, PhD

Dan Appella is a Senior Investigator within the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He obtained his PhD with Sam Gellman at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he performed the initial studies on beta-peptide foldamers. After postdoctoral work at MIT with Steve Buchwald, he started his independent career in the chemistry department at Northwestern University, and then moved after three years to the NIH where he has been for the past 22 years.