Dr. Hokayem is Head of the Neurology and Regenerative Medicine Center of Excellence and Associate Director of Program Development at Biorasi. With over twenty years’ experience in both academia and clinical research, he has focused his research on rare neurological diseases; namely on AS, where he was the first to demonstrate the long overlooked role of the transcriptional coactivation function of UBE3a in the pathobiology of AS, and opened new avenues for biomarker development.

Dr. El Hokayem received his Ph.D. from University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He continued his training with post-doctoral work at the University’s Hussman Institute for Human Genomics.