Amanda Johnson

I received my PhD in cross-disciplinary biomedical sciences from Johns Hopkins where I studied molecular drivers of tumorigenic and immune-modulatory cancer stem cell phenotypes in glioblastoma (GBM). My current interests include identifying tumor cell-intrinsic mechanisms of immune-regulation and delineating the impacts of phenotypic heterogeneity & adaptability on immunotherapy resistance in GBM. My work utilizes in vitro cell systems, genetic & molecular manipulation, and computational spatial analyses to investigate therapeutically actionable mediators of immunosuppression.