Stephen Albert Johnston is currently the Director for the Center for Innovations in Medicine (CIM), a Professor in the School of Life Sciences and Director of the Biological Design Graduate Program at The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. His current work focuses on innovative solutions to fundamental problems in biomedicine. He has experience in basic science, notably first cloning the Gal4 gene, showing that proteins have separable functional domains and discovering the AAA proteins and their role in transcription. His current focus is in translational sciences and technology development. He was Co-Inventor/ Innovator of pathogen derived resistance, organelle transformation, the gene gun, genetic immunization, TEV protease system, expression library immunization, linear expression elements, synbodies and immunosignaturing. He is the author of over 150 journal articles with over 20 patents and has garnered approximately $85M in grant support including large programs from DARPA, NIAID and NHLBI. Stephen Albert Johnston is currently the Director for the Center for Innovations in Medicine (CIM), a Professor in the School of Life Sciences and Director of the Biological Design Graduate Program at The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. His current work focuses on innovative solutions to fundamental problems in biomedicine. He has experience in basic science, notably first cloning the Gal4 gene, showing that proteins have separable functional domains and discovering the AAA proteins and their role in transcription. His current focus is in translational sciences and technology development. He was Co-Inventor/ Innovator of pathogen derived resistance, organelle transformation, the gene gun, genetic immunization, TEV protease system, expression library immunization, linear expression elements, synbodies and immunosignaturing. He is the author of over 150 journal articles with over 20 patents and has garnered approximately $85M in grant support including large programs from DARPA, NIAID and NHLBI.

Veterinary and Animal Sciences