Eric P. Hoffman, Professor, Molecular Pathophysiology of Neurological Disease

Contact Information

Office: Children's National
Medical Center
Labs: Children's National
Medical Center
Tel: (202) 884-6011
Fax: (202) 884-6014
E-mail: ehoffman@childrens-research.org

Lab Staff

Research Associates: Sara Hilmer, Melissa Thouin, Rehannah Borup, Brennan Harmon, James Giron, Craig Fishman, Josephine Chen, Erynn Gordon, Deepak Rao, Linda Moses, Andrea DeBiase, Bill Thistlethwaite, Fiona Patricio, Orinthal McIntyre
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Khaled Bouri, Marina Bakay, Cinzia Brandoli, Simone DiGiovanni, Livia Pasquali, Ksenija Gorni, Carolina Tesa-Rochi, Devin Dressman, Dustin Hittel, Joe Devaney, Robert Freishtat, Kristina Woodson, Saied Jaradat, Annamaria Molon, Edina Vesnelovsky
Graduate Students: Moha Nazarian, Hui Li, Po Zhao, Satish Iyer

Research Interests

Molecular pathophysiology of neurological disease, with emphasis on motor neuron and muscle disorders, and normal nerve/muscle interaction. Additional projects are on the molecular basis of recurrent pregnancy loss, and SNP association studies in exercise physiology.

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Selected Publications:

  1. Chen YW, Zhao P, Borup R, and Hoffman EP. Expression profiling in the muscular dystrophies: Identification of novel aspects of molecular pathophysiology. J Cell Biol 2000; 151: 1321-1336.
  2. Bakay M, Chen Y-W, Borup R, Zhou P, Nagaraju K, and Hoffman EP. Sources of variability and effect of experimental approach on expression profiling data interpretation. BMC Bioinformatics 2002; 3: 4-15.
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