David Pearce
President of Innovation & Research for Sanford Health
David Pearce, PhD, is President of Innovation and Research for Sanford Health. He completed his undergraduate Bachelor of Science Degree with honors in biological sciences at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1986. He gained his PhD in 1990 at the University of Bath, UK, and did postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester, U.S., and Oxford University, UK.
Dr. Pearce heads the leading lab in Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (Batten disease) research. He has published over 100 research papers on Batten disease. He also oversees a national registry for rare diseases known as the Coordination of Rare Diseases at Sanford (CoRDS). He has served on numerous NIH review committees, has organized rare disease workshops for the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Visit website: http://www.sanfordresearch.org/ResearchCenters/SanfordChildrensHealth/PearceLab/Index.cfm
See also: Sanford Health - Largest rural health system in the United States
Details last updated 20-Aug-2020
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