Harold Hoffman, M.D.

Bio

Dr. Hal M. Hoffman is a board-certified allergist/immunologist and chief of the Allergy, Immunology Division at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and UC San Diego.

Dr. Hoffman received his bachelor's in biology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He completed his internship, residency and chief residency in pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston before coming to UCSD as a postdoctoral fellow in allergy and immunology in 1994. He is now a full professor of pediatrics and medicine at UC San Diego.

Dr. Hoffman has authored more than 70 original scientific publications, largely devoted to studying the NLRP3 inflammasome and innate immunity. He has participated in numerous national and international scientific boards, including serving as a member of the advisory board for the Arthritis National Research Foundation and as secretary for both the International Cytokine Society and the International Systemic Autoinflammatory Disease Society. He is also a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigators and the Society for Pediatric Research as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

He has received numerous awards, including the American Lung Association of California Research Training Fellowship Award, American Lung Association of California Research Training Fellowship Award, Distinguished Fellows Asthma Education Scholarship Award, Merck Respiratory Young Investigator, AAAAI Education Research Trust Young Investigator Award, Arthritis Foundation-San Diego County Chapter Research Award and Sheldon Wolff Award for Translational Research. Most recently, Dr. Hoffman was honored with the International Society of Autoinflammatory Diseases Senior Investigator Award.

Publications

JT002, a small molecule inhibitor of the NLRP3 inflammasome for the treatment of autoinflammatory disorders.
Ambrus-Aikelin G, Takeda K, Joetham A, Lazic M, Povero D, Santini AM, Pranadinata R, Johnson CD, McGeough MD, Beasley FC, Stansfield R, McBride C, Trzoss L, Hoffman HM, Feldstein AE, Stafford JA, Veal JM, Bain G, Gelfand EW

Endothelial Cell Response in Kawasaki Disease and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children.
Kim J, Shimizu C, He M, Wang H, Hoffman HM, Tremoulet AH, Shyy JY, Burns JC

Pharmacology of a Potent and Novel Inhibitor of the NOD-Like Receptor Pyrin Domain-Containing Protein 3 (NLRP3) Inflammasome that Attenuates Development of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Liver Fibrosis.
Povero D, Lazic M, McBride C, Ambrus-Aikelin G, Stansfield R, Johnson CD, Santini AM, Pranadinata RF, McGeough MD, Stafford JA, Hoffman HM, Feldstein AE, Veal JM, Bain G

Cold Urticaria Syndromes: Diagnosis and Management.
Diaz VL, Gribbons KB, Yazdi-Nejad K, Kuemmerle-Deschner J, Wanderer AA, Broderick L, Hoffman HM

Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapy Decreases IL-1β Expression and Prolongs Survival in Mutant Nlrp3 Mice.
Kaufmann B, de Los Reyes Jiménez M, Booshehri LM, Onyuru J, Leszczynska A, Uri A, Michel S, Klar R, Jaschinski F, Feldstein AE, Broderick L, Hoffman HM

Author Correction: Differential binding of NLRP3 to non-oxidized and Ox-mtDNA mediates NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation.
Cabral A, Cabral JE, Wang A, Zhang Y, Liang H, Nikbakht D, Corona L, Hoffman HM, McNulty R

Interleukin-18 signaling promotes activation of hepatic stellate cells in mouse liver fibrosis.
Knorr J, Kaufmann B, Inzaugarat ME, Holtmann TM, Geisler L, Hundertmark J, Kohlhepp MS, Boosheri LM, Chilin-Fuentes DR, Birmingham A, Fisch KM, Schilling JD, Loosen SH, Trautwein C, Roderburg C, Demir M, Tacke F, Hoffman HM, Feldstein AE, Wree A

Constitutive IL-1RA production by modified immune cells protects against IL-1-mediated inflammatory disorders.
Colantuoni M, Jofra Hernandez R, Pettinato E, Basso-Ricci L, Magnani L, Andolfi G, Rigamonti C, Finardi A, Romeo V, Soldi M, Sergi Sergi L, Rocchi M, Scala S, Hoffman HM, Gregori S, Kajaste-Rudnitski A, Sanvito F, Muzio L, Naldini L, Aiuti A, Mortellaro A

Differential Binding of NLRP3 to non-oxidized and Ox-mtDNA mediates NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation.
Cabral A, Cabral JE, Wang A, Zhang Y, Liang H, Nikbakht D, Corona L, Hoffman HM, McNulty R

Monogenic early-onset lymphoproliferation and autoimmunity: Natural history of STAT3 gain-of-function syndrome.
Leiding JW, Vogel TP, Santarlas VGJ, Mhaskar R, Smith MR, Carisey A, Vargas-Hernández A, Silva-Carmona M, Heeg M, Rensing-Ehl A, Neven B, Hadjadj J, Hambleton S, Ronan Leahy T, Meesilpavikai K, Cunningham-Rundles C, Dutmer CM, Sharapova SO, Taskinen M, Chua I, Hague R, Klemann C, Kostyuchenko L, Morio T, Thatayatikom A, Ozen A, Scherbina A, Bauer CS, Flanagan SE, Gambineri E, Giovannini-Chami L, Heimall J, Sullivan KE, Allenspach E, Romberg N, Deane SG, Prince BT, Rose MJ, Bohnsack J, Mousallem T, Jesudas R, Santos Vilela MMD, O'Sullivan M, Pachlopnik Schmid J, Průhová Š, Klocperk A, Rees M, Su H, Bahna S, Baris S, Bartnikas LM, Chang Berger A, Briggs TA, Brothers S, Bundy V, Chan AY, Chandrakasan S, Christiansen M, Cole T, Cook MC, Desai MM, Fischer U, Fulcher DA, Gallo S, Gauthier A, Gennery AR, Gonçalo Marques J, Gottrand F, Grimbacher B, Grunebaum E, Haapaniemi E, Hämäläinen S, Heiskanen K, Heiskanen-Kosma T, Hoffman HM, Gonzalez-Granado LI, Guerrerio AL, Kainulainen L, Kumar A, Lawrence MG, Levin C, Martelius T, Neth O, Olbrich P, Palma A, Patel NC, Pozos T, Preece K, Lugo Reyes SO, Russell MA, Schejter Y, Seroogy C, Sinclair J, Skevofilax E, Suan D, Suez D, Szabolcs P, Velasco H, Warnatz K, Walkovich K, Worth A, STAT3 GOF Working Group members, Seppänen MRJ, Torgerson TR, Sogkas G, Ehl S, Tangye SG, Cooper MA, Milner JD, Forbes Satter LR

Mimickers of Classical Urticaria: Cryopyrin-Associated Autoinflammatory Syndrome Presenting as Isolated Urticaria in an Infant.
Solomon BD, Skaljic M, Liu LY, Yan D, Sheahon KM, Broderick L, Hoffman HM, Beres SJ, Brown RA, Teng JMC, Gernez Y

Long-term exposure to house dust mites accelerates lung cancer development in mice.
Wang D, Li W, Albasha N, Griffin L, Chang H, Amaya L, Ganguly S, Zeng L, Keum B, González-Navajas JM, Levin M, AkhavanAghdam Z, Snyder H, Schwartz D, Tao A, Boosherhri LM, Hoffman HM, Rose M, Estrada MV, Varki N, Herdman S, Corr M, Webster NJG, Raz E, Bertin S

Rapid genome sequencing identifies novel variants in complement factor I.
Rodriguez KM, Vaught J, Dilley M, Ellsworth K, Heinen A, Abud EM, Zhang Y, Smith RJH, Sheets R, Geng B, Hoffman HM, Worthen HM, Dimmock D, Coufal NG

NLRP3 activation in neutrophils induces lethal autoinflammation, liver inflammation, and fibrosis.
Kaufmann B, Leszczynska A, Reca A, Booshehri LM, Onyuru J, Tan Z, Wree A, Friess H, Hartmann D, Papouchado B, Broderick L, Hoffman HM, Croker BA, Zhu YP, Feldstein AE

NOD-like receptor protein 3 activation causes spontaneous inflammation and fibrosis that mimics human NASH.
Calcagno DM, Chu A, Gaul S, Taghdiri N, Toomu A, Leszczynska A, Kaufmann B, Papouchado B, Wree A, Geisler L, Hoffman HM, Feldstein AE, King KR

Oxidized DNA fragments exit mitochondria via mPTP- and VDAC-dependent channels to activate NLRP3 inflammasome and interferon signaling.
Xian H, Watari K, Sanchez-Lopez E, Offenberger J, Onyuru J, Sampath H, Ying W, Hoffman HM, Shadel GS, Karin M

IL-1 and autoinflammatory disease: biology, pathogenesis and therapeutic targeting.
Broderick L, Hoffman HM

RNA Sequencing Reveals Beneficial Effects of Atorvastatin on Endothelial Cells in Acute Kawasaki Disease.
Shimizu C, Kim J, He M, Tremoulet AH, Hoffman HM, Shyy JY, Burns JC

The 2021 EULAR/American College of Rheumatology points to consider for diagnosis, management and monitoring of the interleukin-1 mediated autoinflammatory diseases: cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes, tumour necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome, mevalonate kinase deficiency, and deficiency of the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist.
Romano M, Arici ZS, Piskin D, Alehashemi S, Aletaha D, Barron KS, Benseler S, Berard R, Broderick L, Dedeoglu F, Diebold M, Durrant KL, Ferguson P, Foell D, Hausmann J, Jones OY, Kastner DL, Lachmann HJ, Laxer RM, Rivera D, Ruperto N, Simon A, Twilt M, Frenkel J, Hoffman H, de Jesus AA, Kuemmerle-Deschner JB, Ozen S, Gattorno M, Goldbach-Mansky R, Demirkaya E

The 2021 EULAR/American College of Rheumatology Points to Consider for Diagnosis, Management and Monitoring of the Interleukin-1 Mediated Autoinflammatory Diseases: Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes, Tumour Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Periodic Syndrome, Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency, and Deficiency of the Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist.
Romano M, Arici ZS, Piskin D, Alehashemi S, Aletaha D, Barron K, Benseler S, Berard RA, Broderick L, Dedeoglu F, Diebold M, Durrant K, Ferguson P, Foell D, Hausmann JS, Jones OY, Kastner D, Lachmann HJ, Laxer RM, Rivera D, Ruperto N, Simon A, Twilt M, Frenkel J, Hoffman HM, de Jesus AA, Kuemmerle-Deschner JB, Ozen S, Gattorno M, Goldbach-Mansky R, Demirkaya E

Activin A Signaling Provides an Interorgan Link Between Kidney and Muscle in CKD-Associated Muscle Wasting.
Perens EA, Hoffman HM, Mak RH

Cell-specific Deletion of NLRP3 Inflammasome Identifies Myeloid Cells as Key Drivers of Liver Inflammation and Fibrosis in Murine Steatohepatitis.
Kaufmann B, Kui L, Reca A, Leszczynska A, Kim AD, Booshehri LM, Wree A, Friess H, Hartmann D, Broderick L, Hoffman HM, Feldstein AE

Immune response to intravenous immunoglobulin in patients with Kawasaki disease and MIS-C.
Zhu YP, Shamie I, Lee JC, Nowell CJ, Peng W, Angulo S, Le LN, Liu Y, Miao H, Xiong H, Pena CJ, Moreno E, Griffis E, Labou SG, Franco A, Broderick L, Hoffman HM, Shimizu C, Lewis NE, Kanegaye JT, Tremoulet AH, Burns JC, Croker BA, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Kawasaki Disease Research Group Consortium

Neutrophil-specific gain-of-function mutations in Nlrp3 promote development of cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome.
Stackowicz J, Gaudenzio N, Serhan N, Conde E, Godon O, Marichal T, Starkl P, Balbino B, Roers A, Bruhns P, Jönsson F, Moguelet P, Georgin-Lavialle S, Broderick L, Hoffman HM, Galli SJ, Reber LL

Targeting interleukin-1 for reversing fat browning and muscle wasting in infantile nephropathic cystinosis.
Cheung WW, Hao S, Zheng R, Wang Z, Gonzalez A, Zhou P, Hoffman HM, Mak RH

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