Howard Federoff's Biography

Howard Federoff, Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center

As Executive Vice President for Health Sciences at Georgetown University and Executive Dean of the School of Medicine, Dr. Federoff is responsible for Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). He is a professor of Neurology and Neuroscience. Prior to Georgetown, he held appointments as Senior Associate Dean; Professor of Neurology, Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology; and Professor of Oncology and Genetics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and as Founding Director of the Center for Aging and Development Biology at the Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Founding Division Chief of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy. He also served as Director of the University of Rochester’s Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. Dr. Federoff’s research interests include gene therapy and neurodegenerative diseases. He has published greater than 250 peer review and invited articles and serves as a reviewer for many journals, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, Open Genomics Journal and Journal of Experimental Neurology. Dr. Federoff served as Chair of the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee from 2007-2010. He Chairs the Gene Therapy Resource Program for NHLBI, was President of the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair (2012-2013) and is President of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics. Dr. Federoff received MS, PhD, and MD degrees from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, did his internship, residency, and clinical and research fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and practiced medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and University of Rochester. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and National Academy of Inventors.