Dr. Dan Swerdlow University College London, UK

Dan Swerdlow is a physician and genetic epidemiologist at University College London. His principal research interest is in the use of common genetic polymorphisms in population studies to identify and characterize novel therapeutic targets in cardiometabolic disease. His recent work has included identification of the interleukin-6 receptor as a potential... read moretarget for prevention of coronary heart disease, and development of methods for exploiting genetic data for drug target validation.