Biography
Kojo S. J. Elenitoba-Johnson, MD is the Peter C. Nowell, MD, Professor and Founding Director of the Penn Center for Personalized Diagnostics, and Founding Director of the Division of Precision and Computational Diagnostics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Elenitoba-Johnson earned his MD from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria, and is a board certified hematopathologist and genomic pathologist. His laboratory is interested in the molecular pathogenesis of lymphomas and leverages integrative genomics and mass spectrometry-driven proteomics to elucidate structural alterations and their signaling consequences in large-scale. His research is supported by extramural grants from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Elenitoba-Johnson has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award from the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology in 2006 and the Outstanding Investigator Award given by the American Society for Investigative Pathology (2012). He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2011). He received the 2019 William L. Gerald Award from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for discoveries in Cancer Pathology. He has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed research publications and has contributed over 20 chapters in professional text-books.