Tom Cooper

Professor

United States of America

Tom Cooper is a basic researcher who obtained his medical degree from Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia, PA then obtained post-doctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco before joining the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine. He is professor in the departments of Pathology & Immunology, Molecular & Cell Biology and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine and holds the S. Donald Greenberg and the R. Clarence and Irene H. Fulbright Professor Endowed Chairs in the department of Pathology and Immunology. Dr. Cooper’s laboratory uses expertise in RNA biology as well as mouse and cell culture models to investigate the molecular mechanisms by which the RNA gain function in myotonic dystrophy causes skeletal muscle wasting and cardiac features of the disease. As the toxic RNA gain of function contributing to myotonic dystrophy pathogenesis primarily disrupts postnatal RNA processing transitions, his laboratory also investigates the normal roles of RNA processing in postnatal development. He is thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute to advancement of therapeutic approaches for neuromuscular diseases as a member of the TREAT-NMD Advisory Committee for Therapeutics.

Lab homepage: https://www.bcm.edu/research/labs/tom-cooper/?PMID=14453