The mission of the Michael V. Johnston Center for Developmental Neuroscience is to expand scientific knowledge of the mechanisms related to neurodevelopmental disorders – whether acquired or genetic - and to integrate this expanded knowledge into our clinical practices.
This center is committed to bedside-to-bench and bench-to-bedside research with the long-term goal of improving patient clinical outcomes. The Michael V. Johnston Center seeks and supports diversity and collaboration and offers a robust investigatory environment with multidisciplinary scientific approaches to new, future and established clinician scientists, trainees and investigators who work to identify solutions to diseases and disorders of the developing nervous system.
Opening of the Johnston Center
The Michael V. Johnston Center for Developmental Neuroscience team was proud to join Kennedy Krieger leaders to cut the ribbon on the new research lab. The new lab was made possible thanks to the generous support of Dr. Johnston’s family with the goal of advancing the work that Dr. Michael Johnston started and has continued by other scientists at the Institute.
The new lab will be used to expand scientific knowledge of the mechanisms related to neurodevelopmental disorders – whether acquired or genetic - and to integrate this expanded knowledge into clinical practices at Kennedy Krieger and beyond.
About Dr. Michael V. Johnston
Dr. Michael Johnston was the former research scientist and Director of Neuroscience Laboratory and the former senior vice president and chief medical officer at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He was also a professor of neurology and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
