With its strong emphasis on animal models of human disease and long history of producing leaders in academic and industrial settings, this department is a national leader in research on animal diseases and animal models of human diseases. Research topics include animal models of AIDS, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease and inflammatory lung disease. Faculty, fellows and residents control disease outbreaks in the institutional animal colonies through the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathology and provide clinical care of research animals through the Research Animal Resources division. The department’s Retrovirus Laboratory oversees a training grant in pathobiology for pre- and post-doctoral trainees to study the molecular pathogenesis of lentiviral diseases.
Director
Joseph Leonard Mankowski, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
Professor of Pathology
Cory Flagg Brayton, D.V.M.
Associate Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
Janice E. Clements, Ph.D.
Vice Dean for Faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Mary Wallace Stanton Professor for Faculty Affairs
Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
Joint Appointment in Molecular Biology and Genetics
Professor of Neurology
Professor of Pathology
Kathleen Gabrielson, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Oncology
Associate Professor of Pathology
Eric Kenneth Hutchinson, D.V.M.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
Jessica Marie Izzi, D.V.M.
Fabio Romerio
Rebecca Terilli Veenhuis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Jason So Villano, D.V.M., M.S., M.Sc.
Dionna Whitney Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Kenneth Whitaker Witwer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology