Comparative Medicine Branch

Daniel R. Pare', D.V.M.

Deputy Director of Twinbrook Operations
Facility Veterinarian, Twinbrook II and III
NIAID DIR Animal Care and use Committee Attending Veterinarian
NIAID DIR Controlled Substance Program Coordinator

Dr. Paré has almost 30 years experience in laboratory animal care in a variety of roles. He began his career as an U.S. Army Animal Care Specialist (MOS-91T) in 1982 at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine. He has also worked as a Veterinary Technician and Supervisor at Bio-Whittaker and as a Facility Manager with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). During his career as a veterinary technician, he earned certification as a laboratory Animal Technician (LAT) and Laboratory Animal Technologist (LATG) through the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) and as a Licensed Veterinary Technician (LVT) through the State of Maryland. He left the National Institutes of Health in 1992 to earn his Doctorate in veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary medicine in 1996. After working in clinical practice for a few years, he returned to Laboratory Animal Medicine and the Comparative Medicine Branch in 1998.

Major areas of research

Genetics, surgery, cryopreservation and assisted reproduction techniques in mice and nomenclature of mouse strains.

Publications

Chang, YC, MF Stins, MJ McCaffery, GF Miller, DR Paré, T Dam, M Paul-Satyasee, KS Kim, KJ Kwon-Chung. Cryptococcal Yeast Cells Invade the Central nervous System via Transcellular Penetration of the Blood-Brain Barrier, Infect Immun. 2004 Sep; 72(9): 4985-4995.