Cynthia Sears

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]