Stefani N. Thomas BA, PhD

Dr. Stefani Thomas is the Daniel W. Chan Clinical Chemistry Fellow in the Pathology Department of Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Dr. Thomas graduated from Dartmouth College with B.A. in biological sciences and a minor in music. After working for a year as a lab technician, she entered graduate school at the University of Southern California. Three years into her graduate studies there, her advisor moved the laboratory to the University of Maryland. For the sake of the continuity of her research of altered protein-signaling modules in Alzheimer’s disease using mass spectrometry-based proteomics methods, Dr. Thomas made the cross-country move to Baltimore. After earning her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences, Stefani worked as the manager of the University of Maryland’s Greenebaum Cancer Center Proteomics Shared Service for four years.
She is Seeking more experience in academic medicine with translational applications, Dr. Thomas joined the laboratory of Dr. Robert Cotter in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in 2012. After Dr. Cotter’s untimely passing, Stefani joined the Center for Biomarker Discovery and Translation (CBDT) in the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins as a research associate to apply discovery and targeted proteomics methods to elucidate the biology of ovarian cancer and analyze proteins derived from alterations in cancer genomes and related biological processes.