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

Sears earned a M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1977.{{Cite web |title=Cynthia Sears {{!}} Johns Hopkins {{!}} Bloomberg School of Public Health |url=https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/2483/cynthia-l-sears |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=publichealth.jhu.edu |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Cynthia Louise Sears, MD - Baltimore, MD - Infectious Diseases |url=https://profiles.hopkinsmedicine.org/provider/Cynthia+Louise+Sears/2709072 |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=profiles.hopkinsmedicine.org |language=en-US}}

In 1988, Sears joined Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is a professor of medicine, oncology, molecular biology, and immunology.{{Cite web |title=Sears – The Graduate Program in Immunology |url=https://gradimmunology.med.som.jhmi.edu/sears/ |access-date=2024-05-11 |language=en-US}} She holds the Bloomberg-Kimmel Professorship of Cancer Immunotherapy. Sears is the director of the microbiome program at the Bloomberg Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.{{Cite web |title=Cynthia L. Sears |url=https://www.jhu-bmb-phd.org/faculty/cynthia-l-sears |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=Johns Hopkins Biochemistry and Molecular Biology PhD Program |language=en-US}} She served as the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2019. She is the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Infectious Diseases. In 2024, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-18 |title=Six Johns Hopkins researchers named AAAS Fellows |url=https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/04/18/aaas-scholars/ |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=The Hub |language=en}}