Leonard Johnson

Dr. Johnson is a cofounder of RxBio and a coinventor of the company’s lead intellectual property. In addition, he serves as a Vice President. He is an internationally known gastrointestinal physiologist with over 260 peer reviewed publications primarily related to the regulation of the growth of the GI mucosa. He was funded by NIH for 45 continuous years which included 2 MERIT awards. He was the founding editor of the American Journal of Physiology; GI and Liver Physiology and Chairman of the Publications Committee of the American Physiological Society of which he was recently made a Fellow. He has received numerous honors and presented several named lectureships. In addition, he has considerable administrative experience including 15 years as Chair of the Department of Physiology and 6 years as the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.