Eric Lock

Eric Lock is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota. His research spans biostatistics, genetics, proteomics, computational biology, and neuroimaging, with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and Friedreich's ataxia, as well as pulmonary sarcoidosis and microbiome research.

• Current affiliations: University of Minnesota (2020-present), NIH-funded projects
• Key collaborators: NIH (NHGRI, NHLBI), Ohio State University, University of Chicago, FDA

Research Interests: Eric develops advanced statistical and computational methods for high-dimensional biological data. His work includes tensor array techniques for RNA-Seq analysis, proteomic classifiers for pulmonary sarcoidosis, and neuroimaging biomarkers for tracking neurodegenerative disease progression. He also contributes to microbiome dataset curation frameworks.

Article Trends: Recent publications emphasize

• Bayesian statistical models for missing data
• Neuroimaging in ALS and Friedreich's ataxia
• Proteomic and microbiome data integration
• Computational immunity models for vaccination response prediction

Grants & Collaborations: Actively leads NIH-funded projects on tensor array methods and human microbiome compendium. Collaborates on multimodal imaging studies with institutions across the US, focusing on longitudinal disease tracking and molecular diagnostics.