Scientific Review Board

 

Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Sr. Vice President and Vice Dean for Science
Chief Scientific Officer
NYU Langone Medical Center

Steven Burakoff, MD
Director
Mount Sinai Cancer Institute
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Stephen Chanock, MD
Chief, Laboratory of Translational Genomics
Director, Core Genotyping Facility
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Sara A. Courtneidge, PhD
Professor and Program Director
The Burnham Institute for Medical Research
 
Chi Dang, MD, PhD
Director
Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania

Robert Eisenman, PhD (Chair)                                                                                                                                                                                                       Member, Division of Basic Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
American Cancer Society Research Professor

Stephen H. Friend, MD, PhD
President & Chief Executive Officer
Sage Bionetworks
 

D. Gary Gilliland, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President and Franchise Head Oncology
Merck & Co., Inc.

Stephen P. Goff, PhD
Higgins Professor of Biochemistry
Professor of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biophysics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Columbia University

Thomas Hudson, MD
President and Scientific Director
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Ronen Marmorstein, PhD
Professor and Program Leader,
Gene Expression and Regulation Program
The Wistar Institute

William G. Nelson, MD, PhD
Professor of Oncology, Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences, Urology
Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Joseph Nevins, PhD
Barbara Levine Professor of Breast Cancer Genomics
Director, Center for Applied Genomics & Technology
Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Duke University

Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD 
Chair of Oncological Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine
Mount Sinai Medical Center

Mark R. Philips, MD
Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology and Pharmacology
Deputy Director, NYU Cancer Institute
Associate Director, NYU Medical Scientist Training Program
New York University

Matthew D. Scharff, MD 
Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Ali Shilatifard, PhD
Investigator
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Brent Stockwell, PhD
Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Chemistry
Columbia University

Victor Velculescu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Xiao-Fan Wang, PhD
Donald and Elizabeth Cooke Professor of Experimental Oncology
Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology  
Duke University Medical Center

Markus Warmuth, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
H3 Biomedicine

Eileen White, PhD
Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University
Associate Director for Basic Science, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine

James R. Williamson, PhD
Professor & Dean of Graduate Studies
The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
The Scripps Research Institute

Review Board Members Not Serving for the 7th Grant Competition

Atul Butte, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Systems Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Lisa M. Coussens, PhD
Chair
Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Oregon Health & Science University

Nancy E. Davidson, MD
Director
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Danny Reinberg, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry
New York University School of Medicine
 
Brenda A. Schulman, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Co-Director, Molecular Oncology Program
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Louis Staudt, MD, PhD 
Chief, Lymphoid Malignancies Section
Metabolism Branch, Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute

Former Review Board Members

Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD
Director
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University

Michael Gottesman, MD
Deputy Director for Intramural Research
National Institutes of Health

Eric Green, MD, PhD
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Carol W. Greider, PhD 
Daniel Nathans Professor and Director
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Douglas Lowy, MD            
Chief and Principal Investigator
Laboratory of Cellular Oncology
National Cancer Institute

Benjamin Neel, MD, PhD
Director, Ontario Cancer Institute
Tier I Canada Research Chair
Professor of Medical Biophysics
University of Toronto

Tony Pawson, PhD 
Senior Investigator
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Mt. Sinai Hospital

William R. Sellers, MD
Vice President & Global Head, Oncology
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

George Vande Woude, PhD 
Director
Van Andel Research Institute