Eric Hendrickson
Department of Pharmaceuticals
Horizon Discovery
Austria
Biography
Eric is a Full Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. For the past 25 years he has pioneered studies in human somatic cells to investigate areas related to DNA double-strand break repair, including telomeres, DNA recombination and gene targeting. His laboratory has made extensive use of rAAV technology to investigate telomere maintenance, V(D)J recombination, chemotherapeutic drug efficacy and gene targeting in human cancer cells. Eric attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1987. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, before embarking in 1992 on a career as an independent principal investigator. He has published 45 primary research articles, two book chapters and seven reviews. Eric is very active as a reviewer for a large number of journals and as an ad hoc reviewer for NIH grant panels.
Research Interest
Clinicall Research and Molecular Biology.
