Lisa Coussens
Dr. Coussens is Professor and Chair of the Cell & Developmental Biology Department and Associate Director for Basic Research in the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), and holds the Hildegard Lamfrom chair in Basic Science. Dr. Coussens recently joined OHSU from the University of California, San Francisco where she was Professor of Pathology, Co-Leader of the Program in Cancer Immunity and Microenvironment, and Co-Director of the Mouse Pathology Shared Resource in the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Coussens’ laboratory is well known for their studies on immune cell regulation of angiogenesis and cancer and as such is highly experienced in employing animal models to assess tissue and organ function under homeostatic and pathophysiologic conditions. After receiving her B.A. at San Francisco State University, she went on to earn at Ph.D. in biological chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Coussens served as a professor in the department of pathology at UCSF until 2011 when she joined Oregon Health and Science University as Chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.
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