ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Daniella M. Schwartz, MD, received a BA in Biochemistry and French (Cum Laude) from Rice University in 2001, and an MD from Wake Forest in 2007 (Alpha Omega Alpha). She completed an Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She completed a Rheumatology fellowship at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) from 2012-14, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship as a Metzger Scholar in Translational Research in the lab of John O’Shea from 2015-18. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she studied the effects of retinoids on the Th9 transcriptional and epigenomic program, and she was involved in the discovery of the autoinflammatory disease HA20. In 2018, she joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as Assistant Clinical Investigator (ACI), where she is investigating the regulation and roles of atopy-associated cytokines in rheumatic diseases.