Dr. Gail V. W. Johnson is the Principal Investigator of the Gail Johnson Lab at the University of Rochester Medical Center and a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Research (SMD), and Department of Pharmacology and Physiology (SMD). She holds a PhD in Physiology from the University of Delaware in 1984 and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) from 1985–1988. The primary focus of Dr. Gail V. W. Johnson's research group is on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration. The lab has a longstanding interest in the pathogenic processes in Alzheimer's disease, and more recently in stroke and spinal cord injury (SCI).