Molly Thomas, MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology) and Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology at Oregon Health & Science University

Molly Thomas is a physician scientist at OHSU in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Department of Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology. She attended medical school at UCSF, where she also completed a PhD in Immunology. She then went on to pursue post-graduate medical training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). While at MGH, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship studying the immune mechanisms that lead to immune-related adverse events associated with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies. She received K award funding for this work in 2022. In the fall of 2023, she joined the faculty at OHSU, and she currently has dual appointments in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology in the Knight Cancer Institute. Clinically, she treats patients with inflammatory bowel disease and is the directory of the OHSU GI Immune Toxicity Clinic. She also runs a basic science laboratory that studies the contribution of resident T cells to spontaneous and drug-induced intestinal inflammation.