Roswell Park names department chair

Candace S. Johnson, Ph.D., of Amherst, has been appointed chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. She has been a senior faculty member in the department and senior vice president, Translational Research, since 2002, and was endowed as the Robert Lew and Ann Wallace Chair in Translational Research at the Institute in 2005.

Johnson joined Roswell Park from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, where she served as deputy director of basic research and professor of pharmacology and medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

She earned her doctoral degree in immunology from Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1977. From 1977 to 1981, Johnson completed research and postdoctoral fellowships in immunology/cell biology at the Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit.

Johnson is a member of the National Institutes of Health Reviewers Reserve and is a member of many professional and scientific societies. She is associate editor of Molecular and Cellular Differentiation, Oncology, and Molecular Pharmacology, and member of the editorial board of Oncology Reports, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics and Molecular Pharmacology.

She has authored or co-authored more than 130 journal publications, book chapters and abstracts.