Daniel Promislow, PhD

​​Daniel Promislow received his A.B. in Biology at the University of Chicago in 1986, and began working on the biology of aging while doing his graduate work at the University of Oxford. Following post-doctoral studies, in 1995 he joined the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia, followed by a move in 2013 to the University of Washington as a Professor in the Department of Lab Medicine & Pathology and the Department of Biology. In 2024 he assumed a position as Senior Scientist and Scientific Advisor at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston. The Promislow lab uses a systems biology approach, combining phylogenetics, genetics and high-dimensional molecular data, to explore natural variation in aging within and among species. Dr. Promislow has published over 200 articles, including studies in fruit flies, yeast, mice, humans, marmosets, and dogs. He began working on aging in dogs in 2008. In 2018, he co-founded and became the Principal Investigator of the Dog Aging Project, a massive, nationwide study of the biological and environmental factors that shape healthy aging in companion dogs.

Dr. Promislow has been named a Rhodes Scholar, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Aging Association, and the Gerontological Society of America. Other awards for his work include the Ellison Senior Scholar Award, the Glenn Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award, and the Bennett J. Cohen Award in aging research.