Johanna A. Joyce PhD

Johanna Joyce is an Associate Member in the Cancer Biology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, & an Associate Professor in Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Cambridge, England in 1999, & did her postdoctoral training at UCSF. Dr. Joyce has received career development awards from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation, and the V Foundation for Cancer Research, and was named to a Geoffrey Beene Junior Faculty Chair at MSKCC in 2007. Her group’s research interests are to understand the mechanisms by which stromal cells in the tumor microenvironment regulate cancer development, metastasis, & response to therapy, with a particular focus on the roles of innate immune cells & proteases.