Erin Gordon, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
+1 415 476-9456
Research Description:
I am a physician-scientist with an interest in airway epithelial dysfunction in asthma. Specifically, my lab focuses on understanding how genetic risk variants that are associated with asthma at a population level, actually confer risk of disease at a molecular level. We use novel techniques such as conditionally reprogrammed primary airway epithelial cells, CRISPR gene deletion, and biospecimens from large numbers of human subjects to discover the function of genes associated with asthma and elucidate the causal single nucleotide polymorphism. These efforts are designed to uncover novel drug targets and define the subpopulation of asthmatics most likely to benefit from therapy.
Primary Thematic Area:
Human Genetics
Secondary Thematic Area:
Immunology
Research Summary:
Determine the molecular mechanisms and causal variants of asthma-associated genetic loci.
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