Cynthia Sears
Cynthia Louise Sears is an American infectious disease physician-scientist specializing in food borne and intestinal infections. She is a professor of medicine, oncology, molecular biology, and immunology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She holds the Bloomberg-Kimmel Professorship of Cancer Immunotherapy.
Life
[edit]Sears earned a M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1977.[1] She completed training in internal medicine at The New York Hospital and in infectious diseases at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the University of Virginia.[2]
In 1988, Sears joined Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[2] She is a professor of medicine, oncology, molecular biology, and immunology.[3] She holds the Bloomberg-Kimmel Professorship of Cancer Immunotherapy.[2] Sears is the director of the microbiome program at the Bloomberg Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.[4] She served as the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2019.[5] She is the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Infectious Diseases.[5] In 2024, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Cynthia Sears | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health". publichealth.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ a b c "Dr. Cynthia Louise Sears, MD - Baltimore, MD - Infectious Diseases". profiles.hopkinsmedicine.org. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Sears – The Graduate Program in Immunology". Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "Cynthia L. Sears". Johns Hopkins Biochemistry and Molecular Biology PhD Program. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ a b c "Six Johns Hopkins researchers named AAAS Fellows". The Hub. 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
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- Living people
- Jefferson Medical College alumni
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty
- American infectious disease physicians
- American women medical researchers
- Physician-scientists
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 21st-century American women physicians
- 21st-century American physicians
- 21st-century American biologists
- American women biologists
- Presidents of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
- American academic journal editors
- Medical journal editors
- American immunologists
- Women immunologists
- American cancer researchers