Biography

David Johanson (CLAS, 2019) graduated with a B.S. in Biology, a B.A. in Statistics (concentration in applied biostatistics), and a minor in Social Entrepreneurship. At U.Va. David earned the Schwager Research Award for the summer of 2017 and the Hutcheson Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship for the summer 2018 and presented his independent research project at the biology department’s Distinguished Major Katz Symposium. He was also a member of U.Va.’s 2017 iGEM's team under Dr. Keith Kozminski. Currently, David is involved in multiple bioinformatics research projects with faculty at the School of Medicine's Department of Neuroscience and will continue to work as a bioinformatics analyst after graduation. David will also apply to graduate school for computational biology, bioinformatics, or other biology programs that emphasize bioinformatics.