Vered Stearns
Dr. Stearns is Co-Director- Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program, Professor of Oncology, and Breast Cancer Research Chair in Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Stearns’s long-term research goal is to improve current therapies by individualizing strategies for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. Her main research includes using biomarkers to predict response to standard regimens used to treat and prevent breast cancer and to introduce new treatments. Dr. Stearns has received numerous grants and awards to fund her innovative research. She was a recipient of early career awards including a Clinical Research Training Grant from the American Cancer Society, and was one of the first five recipients of the prestigious Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award and she was the inaugural recipient of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Advanced Clinical Research Award.
