Andrea Johnstone

Andrea Johnstone is the Senior Director of Product Development. Andrea joined EpiCypher in 2016 to apply her background in epigenetics and drug discovery to innovate tools for the epigenetic research community. She earned her Ph.D. with the mentorship of Dr. John Bixby in the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis (the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine). Her predoctoral studies, supported by a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, used phenotypic high throughput screening to identify and characterize novel therapeutic approaches for spinal cord injury. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Claes Wahlestedt (Department of Psychiatry, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine), Andrea identified novel epigenetic signaling pathways underlying neuropsychiatric disease. She applied these insights to establish and implement drug development pipelines; work that identified preclinical candidate compounds.