Description of Research Expertise

Neuronal autoantibodies, encephalitis, acquired neuromyotonia (Isaacs' syndrome), peripheral nerve hyperexcitability, potassium channels, the glycine receptor, the GABA-B receptor, neuromuscular disorders, stiff person syndrome.

Selected Publications

Adam M Kruszewski, Zujaja Tauqeer, Elana A Meer, Sana Ali Bautista, Neena R Cherayil, Marcus E Cimino, Sami L Khella, Eric Lancaster, Shawn J Bird, Steven S Scherer, Karen E Revere, Ali G Hamedani, Grant T Liu, Madhura A Tamhankar: Vision Loss as a Presenting Feature of Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy: A Case Series Journal of Neuroophthalmology : 2022.

Yoji Hoshina, Jonathan Galli, Ka-Ho Wong, Tibor Kovacsovics, Mary Steinbach, Karen L Salzman, Joseph Scott McNally, Eric Lancaster, M. Mateo Paz Soldán, and Stacey L. Clardy: GABA-A Receptor Encephalitis after Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant for Multiple Myeloma: 3 cases and Literature Review Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 9 (6): e200024,2022.

Anusha Yeshokumar, Eliza Gordon-Lipkin, Ana Arenivas, Mark Rosenfeld, Kristina Patterson, Raia Blum, Brenda Banwell, Arun Venkatesan, Eric Lancaster, Jessica Panzer, and John Probasco: Younger Age of Onset is Associated with Worse Long-Term Behavioral Outcomes in Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 9 (5): e200013,2022.

Lancaster, E.: Autoantibody encephalitis: presentation, diagnosis, and management Journal of Clinical Neurology 18 (4): 373-390,2022.

Alfred Garfall, Adam Cohen, Sandra Susanibar-Adaniya, Wei-Ting Hwang, Dan Vogl, Adam Waxman, Simon Lacey, Vanessa Gonzalez, Minnal Gupta, Lifeng Tian, Fang Chen, Natalka Koterba, Chelsie Bartoszek, Gabriela Plesa, Don Siegel, Andrea Brennan, Anne-Marie Nelson, Regina Ferthio, Angela Cosey, Kim-Marie Shea, Rachel Leskowitz, Megan Four, Wesley Wilson, Fei Miao, Eric Lancaster, Beatriz Carreno, Gerald Linette, Elizabeth Hexner, Regina Young, Dexiu Bu, Keith Mansfield, Jennifer Brogdon, Carl June, Michael Milone, Edward Stadtmauer, Joseph Fraietta, Margaret Patchin, and Rong Xu: CAR T cells targeting BCMA and CD19 for newly diagnosed and relapsed multiple myeloma patients responding to current therapy. Blood, Cancer Discovery. In Press. : 2022.

Gill AJ, Gandhy S, Lancaster E.: Nivolumab-associated Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome and cerebellar dysfunction in a patient with a neuroendocrine tumor. Muscle & Nerve. 63 (3): E18-21,2021.

Lancaster, E.: Reader Response: Clinical Significance of Anti-NMDAR Concurrent With Glial or Neuronal Surface Antibodies. Neurology 96 (4): 185-186,2021.

Argent L, Winter F, Prickett I, Carrasquero-Ordaz M, Olsen AL, Kramer H, Lancaster E, Becker EBE.: Caspr2 interacts with type 1 inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor in the developing cerebellum and regulates Purkinje cell morphology Journal of Biological Chemistry 295 (36): 12716-12726,2020.

Tizazu E, Ellis CA, Reichert J, Lancaster E.: Low rate of glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD-65) antibodies in chronic epilepsy Seizure 80 : 38-41,2020.

Stadtmauer EA, Fraietta JA, Davis MM, Cohen AD, Weber KL, Lancaster E, Mangan PA, Kulikovskaya I, Gupta M, Chen F, Tian L, Gonzalez VE, Xu J, Jung IY, Melenhorst JJ, Plesa G, Shea J, Matlawski T, Cervini A, Gaymon AL, Desjardins S, Lamontagne A, Salas-Mckee J, Fesnak A, Siegel DL, Levine BL, Jadlowsky JK, Young RM, Chew A, Hwang WT, Hexner EO, Carreno BM, Nobles CL, Bushman FD, Parker KR, Qi Y, Satpathy AT, Chang HY, Zhao Y, Lacey SF, June CH.: CRISPR-engineered T cells in patients with refractory cancer Science 367 (6481): eaba7365,2020.

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