Sandra Orsulic, PhD
Director, Women's Cancer Biology
Women's Cancer Research Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
8635 W. 3rd Street, Suite 290W
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Sandra.Orsulic@cshs.org
Phone: 310-423-9546
Fax: 310-423-9537
Dr. Orsulic is Director of Women’s Cancer Biology at the Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Orsulic was Principal Investigator of a research laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she also served as Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Orsulic’s primary research interests include mouse models of gynecological cancers, the molecular characterization of ovarian cancer, and pathway-targeted therapy. Dr. Orsulic is a member of the Cancer Genome Atlas Project Ovarian Carcinoma Working Group, which investigates the underlying genetic changes that occur in human ovarian cancer.
Dr. Orsulic received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Harold Varmus at the National Institutes of Health and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
