Randy Johnston

Biography

Dr. Johnston received a BSc degree (1975) from the University of Victoria and his PhD (1980) and postdoctoral training from Stanford University in California. He has been a faculty member of the University of Calgary since 1984, where he was recruited with funding from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. He was appointed for 10 years as the Terry Fox Professor for Cancer Research at the University of Calgary together with the positions of Director of the Southern Alberta Cancer Research Centre and Associate Director of Research at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre. He was then appointed as the Associate Vice-President of Research for the University of Calgary and subsequently as President of Genome Prairie and Genome Alberta (a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to genomics research as part of the Genome Canada program). In 2006, he returned to his academic position full-time at the University of Calgary in the Departments of Oncology, plus Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Currently, he also holds three roles as General Secretary for the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences, as Director of the Alberta Cancer Research Tumour Bank and Biorepository, and as Director of the University of Calgary’s Master in Biomedical Technology Graduate Program. Dr. Johnston’s research focuses on cancer genomics and promising, novel viral therapies for cancer.

Research Interest

Pharmaceutical Sciences