Edward Daniel, MD, PhD, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2025. He attended Harvard University where he obtained his degree in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology with a minor in Music, graduating cum laude in 2012. Afterwards, he attended the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, where he obtained both his PhD in 2019 and MD in 2021 with induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. His PhD work focused on how cells communicate to one another during embryonic development to properly form organs, focusing on the role endothelial cells play in the embryonic kidney and lung organogenesis. Daniel completed internal medicine internship and residency at WashU Medicine in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 2024. Afterwards, he served as a Chief Resident for the Internal Medicine Residency Program from 2024-2025, focusing primarily on both the education and inpatient experiences for residents. His clinical and professional interests are in clinical and diagnostic reasoning, curriculum design and development, and general internal medicine with a focus on inpatient care.
Education
- BA, Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology: Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (2012)
- Doctor of Philosophy: UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (2019)
- Doctor of Medicine: UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (2021)
- Residency, Internal Medicine: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (2025)
Clinical Interests
Clinical and diagnostic reasoning, curriculum design and development, and general internal medicine with a focus on inpatient care
Publications
Ahuja N, Hiltabidle M, Rajasekhar H, Voss S, Lu SZ, Barlow HR, Cowdin MA, Daniel E, Vaddaraju V, Anandakumar T, Black E, Cleaver O, Maynard C. Endothelial Cyp26b1 restrains murine heart valve growth during development. Developmental Biology. 2022;486:81-95 (PMID: 35364055)
Ryan AR, England AR, Chaney CP, Cowdin MA, Hiltabidle M, Daniel E, Gupta AK, Oxburgh L, Carroll TJ, Cleaver O. Vascular deficiencies in renal organoids and ex vivo kidney organogenesis. Developmental Biology. 2021;477:98-116. (PMID: 34000274)
Daniel E, Barlow HR, Sutton GI, Gu X, Htike Y, Cowdin MA, Cleaver O. Cyp26b1 is an essential regulator of distal airway epithelial differentiation during lung development. Development. 2020;147(4) (PMID: 32001436)
Barry DM, McMillan EA, Kunar B, Lis R, Zhang T, Lu T, Daniel E, Yokoyama M, Gomez-Salinero JM, Sureshbabu A, Cleaver O, Di Lorenzo A, Choi ME, Xiang J, Redmond D, Rabbany SY, Muthukumar T, Rafii S. Molecular Determinants of Nephron Vascular Specialization in the Kidney. Nature Communications. 2019;10(1) (PMID: 31836710)
Daniel E and Cleaver O. Vascularizing organogenesis: Lessons from developmental biology and implications for regenerative medicine. Current Topics in Developmental Biology. 2019;:177-220 (PMID: 30797509)
Daniel E, Azizoglu DB, Ryan AR, Walji TA, Chaney CP, Sutton GI, Carroll TJ, Marciano DK, Cleaver O. Spatiotemporal heterogeneity and patterning of developing renal blood vessels. Angiogenesis. 2018;21(3):617-34. (PMID: 29627966)
Nam YJ, Song K, Luo X, Daniel E, Lambeth K, West K, Hill JA, DiMaio JM, Baker LA, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Reprogramming of human fibroblasts toward a cardiac fate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2013;110(14):5588-93. (PMID: 23487791)