Children's National Medical Center
Center Director, Center for Genetic Medicine Research
James Clark Chair in Molecular Genetics, Children's Research Institute (CRI), Center for Genetic Medicine Research (CGMR)
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Professor, Pediatrics
Contact Information
Children's National Medical Center
Center for Genetic Medicine Research (CGMR) 111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2970
Eric Hoffman, PhD is a world-renowned human geneticist, who is the director of the ResearchCenter for Genetic Medicine, and James Clark Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s NationalMedicalCenter in Washington, DC. The center has integrated state-of-the-art basic genetics research (genome, transcriptome, and proteome), with an international clinical trial network, and ethics research. He has one of the largest and most diverse portfolios of research and foundation funding world-wide, with nearly $9 million per year in support on topics ranging from muscular dystrophy, ALS, spinal cord trauma, exercise studies, and metabolic syndrome. His Center has recently won a series of national competitions for centralized post-genomics resources, with an emphasis on public access to large biological data warehouses. He has over 250 publications, some of which are among the most cited in the world.
