Isabel Jimenez, DVM, PhD, DACLAM

Education

BS Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 2015
DVM, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca NY, 2019
Internship, General Medicine and Surgery, The Animal Medical Center, New York NY, 2020
Residency, Laboratory Animal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, 2025
PhD, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2025
Diplomate, American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, 2025

About

Dr. Jimenez is the Director of the Rodent/Small Animal Program at Research Animal Resources and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she trains resident veterinarians in the clinical care of small mammals, manages biosecurity and surveillance, and provides subject matter expertise on the Johns Hopkins University Animal Care and Use Committee. She is passionate about evidence-based medicine, mentorship, problem-based learning and curriculum development.

Dr. Jimenez also maintains research connections to the Casadevall Laboratory in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she studies how emerging fungal pathogens can harness their environment to establish novel ecological niches and how fungal interactions with the environment may inform later encounters with mammalian cells. As a veterinarian-scientist, she is keenly interested in infectious diseases that cross domestic animal-human-wildlife interfaces, especially as anthropogenic factors drive these boundaries to become increasingly blurred. Her prior research work includes studying canine vector-borne diseases in the Galápagos Islands, rabies transmission in striped skunks in Colorado, and Helicobacter in baboons. She also has published two studies on refinements for work with ferrets.