Areas of Specialty:

• Sarcopenia

• Obesity

• Aging gene signatures

David Glass, MD

David J. Glass, MD, is a Vice President of Research, overseeing a group focused on Aging and Age-associated Disorders, and is the head of the Postdoctoral fellow program at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Glass is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Genetics & Development at Columbia University’s Vagelos School of Medicine. He holds a BS from Columbia, an MD from New York Medical College and conducted postdoctoral work at Columbia University. He’s an elected fellow of AAAS and ASCI, and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the co-author of more than 130 peer-reviewed research articles on cell signaling mechanisms in neuromuscular junction formation, skeletal muscle atrophy & hypertrophy, obesity, and mechanisms associated with aging.  He’s the author of Experimental Design for Biologists, published by Cold Spring Harbor Press, which is now in its 2nd edition; and he teaches a course on the same topic at Harvard Medical School.