Rosalie C. Sears

Rosalie Sears is a professor at OHSU in the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics and holds the Krista L. Lake Chair in Cancer Research. She is the Co-Director of the OHSU Brenden-Colson Center for Pancreatic Care and a senior member of the Knight Cancer Institute. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation, as well as several other private foundations. She has received both research and business innovation awards in the areas of cancer biology, therapeutics, and technology advancement. Rosalie’s research is focused on cell signaling pathways that drive cancer progression with a particular interest in the role of phosphatase deregulation in this process. She is working on novel therapeutic strategies to re-activate tumor-suppressive phosphatases in an effort to develop treatments for patients suffering from cancer.