Dr. Becker earned his Medical Degree from Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Research Assistant in Neuroscience investigating the role of embryonic stem cells in spinal cord injury repair at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine in 2004 and his residency in Neurology in 2007. From there, he completed a year-long fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. As a Johns Hopkins Neurology Faculty member, he is currently a part of the Johns Hopkins Neurophysiology Intraoperative Monitoring Division. Dr. Becker is a member of the American Academy of Neurology.

A major focus of Dr. Becker’s research has been the role of neurological activity as well as embryonic stem cells in spinal cord injury repair. He is specifically focusing on pediatric models of spinal cord injury. His research has been published at numerous national and international meetings as well as in many journals and books, including Neurology, The Neurologist, the Journal of Neurotrauma, the 1st Annual North American Regional Epilepsy Congress of the American Epilepsy Society, and the books Principles of Tissue Engineering and Essentials of Stem Cell Biology.

McDonald JW, Becker D. Spinal Cord Injury. In: "Essentials of Stem Cell Biology" 2nd edition (Lanza R, Thomas ED, Thomson J, Pedersen R, Gearhart J, Hogan B, Melton D, West M, Ed.) pp. San Diego: Academic Press, Elsevier Science 2009.

Becker D, Patel A, Abou-Kahlil BW, Pina-Garza JE. Successful Treatment of Encephalopathy and Control of Myoclonus with Levetiracetam in a Case of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis. J Child Neurology January 2009.

Owens GP, Ritchie AM, Gilden DH, Burgoon MP, Becker D, Bennett JL. Measles Virus – Specific Plasma Cells are Prominent in Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis CSF. Neurology 2007; 68:1815-1819.

Becker D, Martinez CO, McDonald JW. Differential Determinant Factors Above and Below the Injury Level Regulate Differentiation Fate of Transplanted Neural Progenitors in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury. Data presented at Am Neurological Association 132nd Annual Meeting 2007.

McDonald JW, Becker D. Spinal Cord. In: "Principles of Tissue Engineering", 3rd Edition (Lanza R, Langer R, Vacani JP, Ed.) Chapter 65, pp. 977-994 San Diego: Academic Press, Elsevier Science 2007.

Vadivelu S, Becker D, McDonald JW. Generating Chimeric Spinal Cord: A Novel Model for Transplantable Oligodendrocyte Progenitors Derived From Embryonic Stem Cells. Neurosurg Focus 2005 Sep 15;19(3):E3.

Daniel Becker, M.D.

Head of Pediatric Restoration Therapy
The International Center for Spinal Cord Injury
Kennedy Krieger Institute
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Baltimore, MD 21205
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Telephone: (443) 923-9227
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Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine