Speaker

Rushika M. Perera PhD is the Deborah Cowan Endowed Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and the Vice Chair of the Dept. of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. She also holds appointments in the Dept. of Pathology and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and is the Chief Scientific Officer of the UCSF Pancreas Center.

Dr. Perera received her PhD from the University of Melbourne in Australia and trained at Yale University and the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston before joining the faculty at UCSF in 2015.

Dr. Perera leads an NIH-funded research laboratory focused on understanding how fundamental cell biological processes that regulate metabolism, protein trafficking and quality control are dysregulated in pancreatic cancer, with the aim of identifying new cancer specific vulnerabilities that can be targeted clinically.

Dr. Perera is the recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Career Development Award, and was selected as the 2021 Gunter Blobel Early Career Award recipient of the American Society for Cell Biology.

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