TWIPO #35 ~ Interview With Robert Johnson, PhD

December 02, 2013

New York, NY -- This Week in Pediatric Oncology (TWiPO), the first podcast focusing on pediatric cancer research, announced that Robert Johnson, PhD, is a featured guest on its most recent episode, In this episode, Dr. Johnson speaks with host Dr. Tim Cripe (Nationwide Children's Hospital) and co-hosts Dr. Robyn Dennis (Nationwide Children's Hospital and Dr. Lionel Chow (Cincinatti Children's) about the third most common type of brain tumor in children, ependymomas.

Robert A. Johnson, PhD, is a principal investigator at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. The primary focus of the Johnson laboratory is the development of novel therapies for the treatment of ependymoma, the third most common pediatric brain tumor, by identifying and targeting the genetic changes responsible for the formation of the disease.