F. Bradley Johnson, MD, PhD

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Call 800-789-7366
Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

My clinical expertise is in HLA and transplantation testing.

My education and training

  • Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center - Chestnut Hill
  • Fellowship: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.

Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Johnson is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Jesse M. Platt, Paul Ryvkin, Jennifer J. Wanat, Greg Donahue, M. Dan Ricketts, Steven P. Barrett, Hannah J. Waters, Shufei Song, Alejandro Chavez, Khaled Omar Abdallah, Stephen R. Master, Li-San Wang, F. Brad Johnson Rap1 relocalization contributes to the chromatin-mediated gene expression profile and pace of cell senescence. , Genes and Development , 27(12): 2013,1406-20

Smith Jasmine S, Chen Qijun, Yatsunyk Liliya A, Nicoludis John M, Garcia Mark S, Kranaster Ramon, Balasubramanian Shankar, Monchaud David, Teulade-Fichou Marie-Paule, Abramowitz Lara, Schultz David C, Johnson F Brad Rudimentary G-quadruplex-based telomere capping in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. , Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 18(4): 2011,478-85

Chavez Alejandro, Agrawal Vishesh, Johnson F Brad Homologous recombination-dependent rescue of deficiency in the structural maintenance of chromosomes (Smc) 5/6 complex. , The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 286(7): 2011,5119-25

Kozak, ML, Chavez, A, Dang, W, Berger, SL, Ashok, A, Guo, X, and Johnson, FB. Inactivation of the Sas2 histone acetyltransferase delays senescence driven by telomere dysfunction. , EMBO Journal, 29(1): 2010,158-70

J.N. Lukens, V. Van Deerlin, C.M. Clark, S.X. Xie, and F.B. Johnson Comparisons of telomere lengths in peripheral blood and cerebellum in Alzheimer's disease , Alzheimer's and Dementia, 5(6): 2009,463-9

Johnson, JE, Cao, K, Ryvkin, P, Wang, L-S, and Johnson, FB Altered gene expression in the Werner and Bloom syndromes is associated with sequences having G-quadruplex forming potential. , Nucleic Acids Research, 38(4): 2010,1114-1142

Chavez Alejandro, George Vanessa, Agrawal Vishesh, Johnson F Brad Sumoylation and the structural maintenance of chromosomes (Smc) 5/6 complex slow senescence through recombination intermediate resolution. , The Journal of biological chemistry, 285(16): 2010,11922-30

Lee JY, Kozak M, Martin JD, Pennock E, Johnson FB. Evidence That a RecQ Helicase Slows Senescence by Resolving Recombining Telomeres. , PLOS Biology, 5(6): 2007,e160

Marciniak, R.A., Cavasos, D., Montellano, R., Chen, Q., Guarente, L., and Johnson, F.B. A novel telomere structure in a human ALT cell line. , Cancer Res., 65(7): 2005,2730-7

Du, X., Shen, J., Kugan, N., Furth, E.E., Lombard, D.B., Cheung, C., Pak, S., Luo, G., Pignolo, R.J., Guarente, L, and Johnson, F.B. Telomere shortening exposes functions for the mouse Werner and Bloom syndrome genes. , Mol. Cell. Biol., 24(19): 2004,8437-8446

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