Dean Julie Johnson Presented 2021 Precision Medicine World Conference Luminary Award
Julie Johnson, Pharm.D., dean and distinguished professor in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, was presented the 2021 Precision Medicine World Conference, or PMWC, Luminary Award on Sept. 23, 2021 in Pittsburgh. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to accelerate precision medicine within the clinical setting and is regarded as one of the most prestigious in the precision medicine field.
Johnson’s selection acknowledges her work as an early leader in pharmacogenomics discovery research and its clinical implementation. She joins an elite group of national health care experts as Luminary Award winners. Other recipients include Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health, and James Allison, Ph.D., a 2018 Nobel Prize award winner and chair of Immunology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, among many other awardees.
Learn more about Dean Julie Johnson Presented 2021 Precision Medicine World Conference Luminary Award.“To be included among this group of incredibly distinguished scientists and clinicians is truly an honor, and I’m humbled that the Precision Medicine World Conference selected me for this award,” Johnson said. “It’s been incredibly rewarding to contribute toward the clinical implementation of precision medicine in mainstream health care and know there are countless patients every day benefitting from improved drug therapy regimens.”