Daniela Drummond-Barbosa is a Brazilian-American geneticist who is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
[3] She moved to New Haven, Connecticut for her graduate studies, where she worked with Daniel DiMaio on the interactions between platelet-derived growth factor receptors and the bovine papillomavirus E5 protein.
[3] Drummond-Barbosa continued to study the regulation of stem cells as she started her independent career at Vanderbilt University.
She focused on how germline stem cells are regulated by diet and the control of meiotic maturation in Drosophila.
[2] She has focused on the ovarian stem cells of Drosophila and how they respond to diet, concentrating on hormones, insulin and adipose tissue.