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.
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. She is a professor of medicine, oncology, molecular biology, and immunology.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]