Theo Ross serves as the director of the UT Southwestern Cancer Genetics Program.
She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from the Washington University Medical Scientist Training Program in St. Louis and completed her medical residency in Boston at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by a fellowship in oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Her laboratory at UT Southwestern investigates the normal function of BRCA1 as well as the basic biology of cancer cells and how those cells resist cancer drugs.
Dr. Ross has served as the Secretary/Treasurer for the American Society for Clinical Investigation and sits on the Editorial Board of Clinical Genetics and the Board of Consulting Editors for the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Her first book A CANCER IN THE FAMILY: Take Control of Your Genetic Inheritance was published by Avery (Penguin/Random House) Books in February 2016.
