Atul Chopra, MD, PhD
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Specialty: Genetics
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Primary Location: 11100 Euclid Ave (0 mi.)
Other Locations - Languages Spoken: English
Office Locations
UH Cleveland Medical Center Lakeside Building (0 mi.)
11100 Euclid Ave
Lakeside Ste 1500
Cleveland, OH 44106
Biography: Atul Chopra, MD, PhD
Expertise
Titles
- Associate Director, Rare Disease Program, Harrington Discovery Institute, University Hospitals
- Investigator, Harrington Discovery Institute, University Hospitals
- Associate Professor of Medicine, CWRU School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor of Genetics, CWRU School of Medicine
Education
Residency | Medical Genetics
Medical Genetics - Texas Children's Hospital (2010 - 2014)
Other Education
Baylor College Of Medicine (2010)
Medical Education
Maharashtra Institute Of Medical Education And Research (2002)
About
Atul Chopra, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist and medical geneticist specializing in rare genetic disorders of metabolism and energy balance. An example of his work is the discovery of asprosin, a hormone that controls appetite and glucose levels, that was made possible by clinical examination of patients with mutations in a gene never previously associated with such processes.
Dr. Chopra’s lab at Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals, and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, studies every facet of asprosin biology - synthesis, secretion, blood dynamics, CNS and hepatic receptors, and manipulation to treat disease. He devotes most of his time to novel scientific discovery as a principal investigator of his lab group, and to diagnosing and caring for patients as an Attending Medical Geneticist at the Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.
Dr. Chopra founded and operationalized Aceragen, Inc., a biotech company that is developing treatments for several rare genetic diseases. His professional life encompasses the entire arc - from caring for patients, to discovering new biology, to commercially developing products that serve those patients. Dr. Chopra also serves as a thought leader in metabolic and hormonal diseases such as obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and certain inborn errors of metabolism.