David B. Sacks MB ChB, FRCPath, MD

David B. Sacks received his medical training at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He completed residencies in Internal Medicine at Georgetown University affiliated hospitals in Washington, D.C. and in Clinical Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and is board certified in both disciplines.
After completing fellowship training in Clinical Chemistry at Washington University School of Medicine, he joined the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he was both Medical Director of Clinical Chemistry and Director of the Clinical Pathology Training Program. He joined the NIH as Chief of Clinical Chemistry in 2011.
The scientific work in his research laboratory is in the general area of intracellular signal transduction, with a focus on calcium and calmodulin signaling. His research was funded for over 20 years by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association, the Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the U.S. Army and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.