Laura Heiser

Associate Professor

Dr. Laura Heiser is Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Oregon Health and Science University and is co-Leader of the Knight Cancer Institute P30 Quantitative Oncology Program. Her laboratory is focused on understanding the phenotypic and molecular responses of cancer and normal cells to diverse stimuli, with a particular interest in elucidating mechanisms of therapeutic response and resistance in cancer.

Dr. Heiser has served as co-PI on an NHGRI U54 LINCS (Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures) Center grant designed to interrogate the influence of microenvironmental factors on diverse epithelial cell types and currently serves as PI on the OHSU Cancer Systems Biology Consortium U54 Center grant, focused on understanding the role of microenvironmental signals in modulating cell state heterogeneity and therapeutic response. She has had leadership roles in the development of international DREAM (Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods) challenges and led a multi-center LINCS Common Project designed to deeply profile the dynamic molecular and phenotypic responses of mammary epithelial cells to diverse microenvironmental factors.

Talks About
#oncology #leadership

Preferred Locations
#Northamerica