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    Andrew D. D. Johnson, PhD (he/him/his)

    Professor
    Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, USA.
    Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

    Andrew has co-authored more than 210 scientific manuscripts with >40,000 citations (h-index 101). Since 2009, Andrew and his Lab have been attending and presenting at ISTH Scientific Sessions. The primary focus of his Lab is understanding the sources of variability both genetic and environmental that influence human platelet responsiveness and platelet counts, and how these contribute to disease and disorders. A hallmark of the Lab is collecting large-scale datasets on platelet reactivity and OMICs in human populations, as well as collaborating with cellular and model organism biologists. Currently Andrew is the Chair (2022-2025) of the ISTH Thrombogenomics SSC with a major goal of expanding the global reach and connections of that SSC. He’s also served as an ISTH abstract grader and moderator, in teaching educational ISTH sessions and an ISTH Master class. Outside the ISTH, Andrew has had many volunteer, grant review and leadership roles in The Framingham Heart Study, the American Heart Association, the NIH and ad-hoc Expert panels. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the NHLBI TOPMed Hematology & Hemostasis Working Group. Andrew has conducted peer review for more than 70 journals including numerous times for Platelets, JTH, Blood, Circulation, Circulation Research, J. Thrombosis Thrombolysis, Thrombosis Haemostasis, Bioinformatics, Genome Biology and Nature Communications. He has trained 25 students at the undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral level with nearly all of them continuing on medical and academic scientific career paths. He views the mentor-mentee relationship as a bi-directional learning experience and aims to maximize the benefits to both people by fostering open and honest communication, a culture of DEIA, establishing their common goals and interests, providing a mixture of low/high risk-reward projects and timelines, engagement with peer review activities as vital learning, and promotion of a trainee-first-over-mentor ethic in opportunities for authorship and making recognized research presentations.

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