Dr. Eric Johannsen is a faculty member in the Division of Infectious Disease within the Department of Medicine and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Oncology/McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. He is an internationally recognized expert on Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) associated diseases. Dr. Johannsen leads an NIH funded laboratory focusing on the molecular biology of EBV, mentoring undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral researchers. He is interested in computational biology and developed a bioinformatics course for students of the biological sciences.
Dr. Johannsen’s clinical focus is on general infectious diseases and infectious diseases in immunocompromised patients.
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Dr. Johannsen's research interests include understanding the mechanisms by which EBV nuclear proteins allow the virus to establish life-long infection and contribute to human disease. His accomplishments include characterizing the protein composition of the EBV virion, publication of the first EBV protein-protein interactome, discovery of EBV LF2 as an inhibitor of viral replication, and elucidating the mechanisms by which a viral pre-initiation complex (vPIC) mediates late gene expression. He is a member of the McArdle Laboratory Viral Oncology Program Project, serving as a co-leader on two projects and director of the virus production core.