Department of Molecular & Comparative Pathobiology

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 Mankowski, D.V.M., Ph.D.

  • Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
  • Professor of Neurology
  • Professor of Pathology
 
 
  • Cory Brayton, D.V.M.

    • Director, Phenotyping Core
    • Associate Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology

    Expertise: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

  • Janice E. Clements, Ph.D.

    • Director of Retrovirus Laboratory
    • 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 Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
    • Associate Professor of Oncology
    • Associate Professor of Pathology
  • Lydia M. Hopper, Ph.D.

    • Director of Behavioral Management, Research Animal Resources
    • Associate Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
  • Eric Kenneth Hutchinson, D.V.M.

    • Director, Research Animal Resources
    • Associate Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
  • Jessica Marie Izzi, D.V.M.

    • Assistant Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
  • Andy McCallion, Ph.D.

    • Assistant Director, Human Genetics Graduate Program
    • Professor of Genetic Medicine
    • Professor of Medicine
    • Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
    • Professor of Pediatrics
  • Fabio Romerio

    • Associate Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
  • Rebecca Terilli Veenhuis, Ph.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
    • Assistant Professor of Neurology
  • Jason So Villano, D.V.M., M.S., M.Sc.

    • Associate Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
  • Dionna Whitney Williams, Ph.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
    • Assistant Professor of Medicine
    • Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
    • Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
  • Kenneth Whitaker Witwer, Ph.D.

    • Associate Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology
    • Associate Professor of Neurology