Amy Johnson Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Work as part of a team to design and coordinate non-human primate PK/PD studies at CROs. Serve as study monitor and travel to perform site visits while observing important study activities. Some GLP experience. In the past ~2 years, studies I have contributed to have led to 3 development candidate nominations and 1 IND filing.

I design and coordinate preclinical large animal studies to show biodistribution and target engagement of our novel capsids and pipeline gene therapies.

Projects: Estrous cycle effects on cocaine self-administration, sex differences in protein expression in the nucleus accumbens after cocaine self-administration, training effects on measures of motivation. Have published 3 first author papers from these projects and been invited to give 3 talks at international conferences.Skills: In vivo rodent IV drug.

Projects: Worked to develop the preclinical half of a preclinical to human laboratory testing pipeline for testing potential pharmacotherapies for cocaine use disorder with collaborators from the University of Kentucky. Designed experiments to test the mechanism of an effective pharmacotherapy for cocaine use disorder. Published 2 first author papers and.

Ran discrimination procedures in rats, and set up a new learning and memory procedure in the laboratory. Self-taught the code for programs to run the new procedure. Took on a leadership position and oversaw students and experiments.Was selected to present my research at the Provost's Honors Symposium and won Best Student Researcher in the Psychology.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Pharmacology And Toxicology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology