Principal Investigator
Aldebaran M. Hofer, PhD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Education & Training
- Pre-Doctoral Student
University of California at Berkeley, Physiology, 1988 highest honors - PhD
University of California at Berkeley, Physiology, 1993 - Post-Doctoral Fellow
-University of California at Berkeley, Molecular & Cell Biology, 1994
-II. Physiologisches Institut, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, 1995-1996
-Università di Padova, Italy, 1996-1998
Positions & Employment
- Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School, 1998 – 2001
- Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, 2001 – 2010
- Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School (Brigham & Women’s Hospital), 2010 – present
- Health Research Scientist, VA Boston Healthcare System, 1998-present
- Deputy Associate Chief of Staff for Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, 2015 – 2020
- Board of Directors, Boston VA Research Institute, 2021-present
- Editorial Board Membership: Function, Cell Calcium, Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
We work on second messenger signaling (calcium and cAMP) in and around organelles. Recent interests include imaging of cAMP/PKA signaling in the primary cilium and in various subdomains of the mitochondrion.