Ajit Johnson

Ajit Johnson Nirmal is a cancer geneticist. He has also campaigned to raise awareness on tech addiction and net neutrality.^[1][2]

Ajit Johnson
Dr. Nirmal at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in 2015
Born	Chennai, India
Alma mater	University College London University of Edinburgh
Known for	Computational Biology Bioinformatics Oncogenomics
Scientific career
Institutions	Harvard University, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
Website	www.ajitjohnson.com

Education

Born in Vellore, Johnson graduated with a bachelor's degree in biotechnology at Karunya University. Johnson graduated from University College London in 2011 and worked at the Indian Institute of Science. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in cancer genetics and genomics from the University of Edinburgh^[3] and performed his post-doctoral work at Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.^[4]

Career

Research

Johnson and colleagues developed a cell based gene therapy for haemophilia patients at the National Cancer Centre Singapore.^[5][6] Johnson developed ImSig, a network-based computational framework that facilitates the characterization of immune cells within the tumor microenvironment.^[7] Johnson's work involves multi-dimensional characterization (genetic, transcriptional, spatial and biophysical attributes) of the tumor ecosystem ^[8] and understanding the differences in molecular signature of immune cells ^[9] across tumours.