Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, PhD

Dr. Roussos Torres received a BS in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and a BA in World Arts and Cultures with a concentration in Dance from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She then went on to receive her combined MD/PhD from the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

She then completed her internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She began her hematology/oncology fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania and following the completion of her major clinical requirements, she transferred to Johns Hopkins University to pursue her research interests in cancer immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee.

Dr. Roussos Torres graduated from fellowship and began her faculty career as an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. She leads her own lab and works collaboratively with other physicians and physician-scientists to continue her work in immune-oncology with a specific interest in breast cancer.