Po Hien Ear, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. A cancer researcher, Dr. Ear specializes in neuroendocrine tumor biology, with a focus on developing patient-derived models to study small bowel neuroendocrine tumors and mechanisms of drug resistance. Prior to joining Emory, she served on the faculty at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
Education
She earned her PhD and Master of Science in biochemistry from the University of Montreal in Montreal, Canada. She completed postdoctoral training through a fellowship in experimental medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, a fellowship in genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and a fellowship in biochemistry at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Titles & Roles
Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
Research
Dr. Ear’s research aims to uncover novel mechanisms of drug resistance that make neuroendocrine neoplasms highly refractory to therapy, leverage innovative immune cell-based approaches to target these tumors and investigate the role of incretin mimetics in neuroendocrine tumors and neuroendocrine carcinomas that express high levels of the GLP-1 receptor.
