Dr. W. Evan Johnson

Dr. Johnson received his Ph.D in 2007 in Biostatistics from Harvard University, conducting his research primarily at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. His co-thesis advisors had expertise in Bayesian statistics, computational biology, and bioinformatics. Following his Ph.D., he spent four years as an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Brigham Young University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Oncological Sciences at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. He subsequently moved to Boston University (BU), where he spent 11 years as an Assistant/Associate Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics, served as Associate Chief of the Division of Computational Biomedicine (7 years), and was a Founding Member of the BU Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. Dr. Johnson is currently a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease and Founding Director of the Center for Data Science at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is well-known for his work in the development of methods and software for combining high-throughput datasets and for methods and applications in cancer precision medicine, microbiome profiling, and infectious disease research. Dr. Johnson has disseminated more than 100 articles, reports, and software packages, which have garnered more than 22,000 citations, and an h-index of 43, and his software tools are downloaded more than 100,000 times per year. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2008. In 2015, he co-founded a molecular diagnostics company based on his research, which was recently acquired by LabCorp. Dr. Johnson and his wife, Holly, are parents of two daughters and two sons, and they currently reside in Enterprise, UT.