Vera Svobodova Donnenberg is an associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She earned her MIS in Clinical Pharmacology from the Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She is also a member of several editorial boards, including those of the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Frontiers in Immunology, and Cytometry Part A, a leading journal in the field of imaging and cytometry. She focuses her research on tumorigenic stem cells in lung, esophageal, and breast cancers; pleural pathobiology; therapeutic resistance; the interaction of tumor cells and regenerating tissue; lung immunology; pleural immuno-oncology; and cellular therapeutics and biologics.