Timothy F. Osborne, PhD
Associate Dean for Basic Research, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
Director of Institute for Fundamental Biomedical Research, Johns Hopkins All Children’s
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Johns Hopkins All Children’s
Professor of Medicine and Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Tim Osborne was awarded his Ph.D. in Microbiology with emphasis in Molecular Biology from UCLA. Dr. Osborne subsequently received postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical School, where he chose to extend his training to further his research skills in Molecular Genetics, Metabolism, and Biochemistry. Dr. Osborne was appointed as an Assistant Professor at UC Irvine where he rose to become Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. In 2009 he moved to become founding director of the Metabolic Disease Research Program at the Orlando campus of the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, where he continued to pursue his research interest in Metabolic Biology with emphasis on cardiovascular disease and diabetes. He joined Johns Hopkins All Children’s as director of the IFBR in 2018 and in 2021 he was named Associate Dean for Basic Research. Dr. Osborne has been continuously supported with extramural support from the National Institutes of Health since the 1980s, and he has enjoyed additional funding from the American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society as well as from private industry.