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Daniel A. Sop, BS, MS

Sr Research Scientist
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States

Daniel Sop is a Biomedical Engineering PhD student with over 15 years of experience in healthcare and research. He earned a Bachelors of Science from Old Dominion University and a Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently, he is completing his doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on objective pain measurement and neuroimaging at VCU. In his current role, he serves as the Senior Clinical Research Analyst for several government and privately-funded grants focused on sickle cell disease within the Division of General Internal Medicine. Mr. Sop was one of nine nationally selected students to attend and complete the DC I-Corps program in 2016. This program is designed to expedite technology transfer and commercialization from regional universities and federal labs, and jumpstart technology-based startups in the Washington, DC region. Through his work at VCU, Mr Sop has developed mobile-based applications for pain monitoring in sickle cell patients. This is an ongoing project through which he aims to study and report patterns of pain and opioids utilization amongst sickle cell patients or patients suffering of chronic non-cancer pain. Mr. Sop was also recently selected as a fellow by the Pittsburgh Intensive Training in Hematology Research (PITHR), an NIH research education program that supports research education activities aiming to complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs while enhancing the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce. Through his work, Mr. Sop plans to develop a validated, objective pain measurement tool that could virtually eliminate pain-related
misdiagnoses, opioid overuse or underuse, stigma and bilateral mistrust between physicians and their pain patients. Mr Sop’s current research focuses on evaluating the hemodynamic parameters of the brain, fluid cognition and their response to various pharmacotherapies.

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