New York University Grossman School of Medicine (MD/PhD) National Institutes of Health New York University Grossman School of Medicine David B. Beck is an American physician-scientist, clinical geneticist, and researcher who co-discovered VEXAS Syndrome.

[1][2][3] He holds dual appointments as an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and is a member of the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics and the Division of Rheumatology at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health.

He would then go on to join the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

[4] He completed his doctoral thesis in the laboratory of HHMI Investigator Danny Reinberg.

[6][7] Beck continued clinical training through the clinician scientist pathway in Internal Medicine at Columbia University and later went on to perform a fellowship in Clinical Genetics jointly at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine combined program.