John Joseph Laterra MD, PhD

John J. Laterra is a research scientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also a professor in the Department of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is the director of the Division of Neuro-Oncology in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Laterra received his bachelor's of arts Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University in St. Louis, where he majored in physics. He then attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in their medical scientist training program, where he obtained first a doctorate in microbiology in 1982, followed by a medical degree in 1984. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha in 1984. He served an internship in internal medicine, as well as a residency and chief residency in neurology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dr. Laterra came to Johns Hopkins and the Kennedy Krieger Institute in 1988.

Dr. Laterra is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association for Cancer Research and the Society for Neuro-Oncology. He is on the Scientific Advisory Council of the American Brain Tumor Association and a member of the Brain Disorders and Clinical Neurosciences-4 Study Section of the National Institutes of Health.