Eric P. Hoffman
Eric P. Hoffman
Researcher who helped discover a major feature of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Along with Louis Kunkel and other colleagues, Hoffman in 1988 found that sufferers of the disease lack the protein dystrophin. The finding opened the way to earlier diagnosis of the disease.
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