Dan grew up on the sunny West Coast in Perth where he studied medicine before moving to Sydney to train as an Immunologist at Westmead and St Vincent's hospitals. He then undertook his PhD studies with Rob Brink at the Garvan Institute investigating memory B cell and plasma cell differentiation in germinal centre responses. He's now returned to Westmead as a Staff Specialist in Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology, but remains half-time at the Garvan to continue his research and establish new genome sequencing projects studying human autoimmune disorders.