People

Dr. Andrew Johnson (AJ), B.A., Ph.D.,

Dr. Johnson is the Founder and Scientific Director of EvoCell Ltd. He obtained a Bachelor’s Degree from Hunter College in New York City. His Ph.D. was earned from Purdue University, U.S.A, where he studied with Prof. L. Dennis Smith, a leading figure in the field of embryology, focusing on how the germ line is established during development. After postdoctoral work in molecular biology at the University of Texas, Dr. Johnson started his own laboratory at Florida State University. While there he developed the evolution theories that underlie EvoCell and he developed the experimental systems that led to our unique understanding of how pluripotency evolved. Now based at the University of Nottingham, Dr. Johnson’s lab studies the molecular mechanisms that control pluripotency and the development of germ cells and stem cells.

Dr. Ramiro Alberio, DVM, PhD.

Dr Alberio is Co-founder and Scientific Advisor of EvoCell Ltd. He obtained his degree in Veterinary Sciences from the La Plata University, Argentina in 1996, and a PhD from Munich University, Germany, in 2001. He was awarded a Marie-Curie Fellowship in 2002 and more recently he obtained an academic appointment at the University of Nottingham. He has extensive experience in animal cloning and has been investigating nuclear reprogramming of somatic cells for the past 10 years. He has worked under the supervision of Prof. Eckhard Wolf (Munich, Germany) and with cloning pioneer Prof. Keith Campbell (Nottingham, UK).