David Cappel, PhD

From the Washington, D.C., area, David Cappel received his undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology at Princeton University in 2008. At Princeton, he worked under Dr. Amy Caudy studying the regulation of mitochondrial DNA copy number. David entered the IGP program in the fall of 2008 and defended his thesis in the Stafford Lab in 2014. His research focused on the role of glucose as a substrate and signal in hepatic lipid metabolism. He is currently a faculty member at Vanderbilt University.