Leadership

AACR Officers and Directors

The AACR thanks its officers and members of the board of directors for their vision, their wisdom, and their hard work in support of the AACR’s mission.

Officers

President

Lisa M. Coussens, PhD, FAACR

Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
Portland, Oregon

President-Elect

Philip D. Greenberg, MD, FAACR

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington

Treasurer

William N. Hait, MD, PhD, FAACR

Janssen Research & Development, LLC
Raritan, New Jersey

Past President

David A. Tuveson, MD, PhD, FAACR

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center
Cold Spring Harbor, New York

Chief Executive Officer

Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)

American Association for Cancer Research
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Board of Directors

Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD

The Tisch Cancer Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
New York, New York

John D. Carpten, PhD, FAACR

Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California

Christina Curtis, PhD, MSc

Stanford University
Stanford, California

Luis A. Diaz Jr., MD, FAACR

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Silvia Chiara Formenti, MD

Weill Cornell Medicine
New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York

Elaine Fuchs, PhD, FAACR

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Rockefeller University
New York, New York

Susan M. Galbraith, MBBChir, PhD,
MRCP, FRCR, FMedSci

AstraZeneca
Cambridge, England

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD

Yale Cancer Center
New Haven, Connecticut

Thomas J. Lynch Jr., MD

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

Ira Mellman, PhD, FAACR

Genentech Inc.
South San Francisco, California

Lisa A. Newman, MD, MPH, FACS, FASCO, FSSO

New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York

William Pao, MD, PhD

Pfizer
New York, New York

Kimberly Stegmaier, MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

Suzanne L. Topalian, MD, FAACR

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Baltimore, Maryland

Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil

Abramson Cancer Center
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

AACR Foundation Officers and Trustees

Eighty-eight cents of every dollar raised by the AACR Foundation goes to support lifesaving cancer science. The AACR thanks the officers and trustees of the Foundation for their efforts to maximize the impact of donations on the lives of cancer patients.

Officers

President and Chairman

Stephen D. Ryan

Merrill Lynch Private Banking and Investment Group
Pittsford, New York

Secretary-Treasurer and CEO

Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)

American Association for Cancer Research
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Founding Chairman of the Board and President Emeritus

Bayard D. Clarkson, MD, FAACR

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Trustees

Christiana Bardon, MD, MBA

Burrage Capital
MPM Capital
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Bown II

Charter Associates
Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania

James V. Buzzitta, MD

Hughes Management, LC
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Lisa M. Coussens, PhD, FAACR

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon

Lauretta Chrys

Citizens Financial Group
Boston, Massachusetts

Nancy E. Davidson, MD, FAACR

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD, FAACR

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

Faye Florence, Esq.

Attorney, Non-Profit Board Member
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Cathy Fraser, MBA

WelbeHealth
Rochester, Minnesota

Philip D. Greenberg, MD, FAACR

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington

William N. Hait, MD, PhD, FAACR

Johnson & Johnson Global External Innovation
Raritan, New Jersey

Tonya Hallett

Amazon Global Delivery Services
Brentwood, Tennessee

Richard A. Heyman, PhD

Vividion Therapeutics
Del Mar, California

Michael E. Jesanis

Eleanor D. Kress, MBA, JD

Wilmington Trust Retirement and Institutional Services Co.
New York, New York

John E. Leonard, PhD

Vaccinex Inc.
Carlsbad, California

Gladys Monroy, PhD, JD

Intellectual Property Consultant
Atherton, California

Anil K. Rustgi, MD

Columbia University Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
New York, New York

Ajit Singh, PhD

Artiman Ventures
Palo Alto, California

Nancy Staisey, PhD

Health Care Consultant
Lewes, Delaware

Gary Steele, Col. (Ret.)

Retired U.S. Army Officer
Carlisle, Pennsylvania

David A. Tuveson, MD, PhD, FAACR

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center
Cold Spring Harbor, New York

Trustees Emeriti

José Baselga, MD, PhD, FAACR ^†

AstraZeneca
Gaithersburg, Maryland

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, FAACR

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH, FAACR

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

Tyler Jacks, PhD, FAACR

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sherry Lansing

The Sherry Lansing Foundation
Los Angeles, California

Frank McCormick, PhD, FAACR

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Charles L. Sawyers, MD, FAACR

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Standing Committee Chairs

Continuing Medical Education Committee

Steven T. Rosen, MD

Education and Training Committee

Elaine R. Mardis, PhD, FAACR

Exhibits Committee

Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD

Finance and Audit Committee

Cheryl L. Willman, MD

International Affairs Committee

Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD, FAACR

Nominating Committee

Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, FAACR

Publications Committee

Victor E. Velculescu, MD, PhD, FAACR

Satellite Educational Symposia Committee

Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD

Science Education and Career Advancement Committee

Brian M. Rivers, PhD

Science Policy and Government Affairs Committee

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD

Special Conferences Committee

Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD, FAACR
Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD

Tellers Committee

Marcia R. Cruz-Correa, MD, PhD

Annual Meeting Committee Chairs

Annual Meeting Program Committee

Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, PhD, Chair

Vice Chairs

Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, PhD, FAACR, Vice Chair
Carlos M. Caldas, MD, Vice Chair
José R. Conejo-Garcia, MD, PhD, Vice Chair
Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, PhD, Vice Chair
Peter Kuhn, PhD, Vice Chair
Shivaani Kummar, MD, Vice Chair
Quynh-Thu Le, MD, Vice Chair
Christine M. Lovly, MD, PhD, Vice Chair
Sanjay V. Malhotra, PhD, Vice Chair
Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA, Vice Chair
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD, Vice Chair
Seishi Ogawa, PhD, Vice Chair
Anna Karolina Palucka, MD, PhD, Vice Chair
Sylvia K. Plevritis, PhD, Vice Chair
Joachim Rudolph, PhD, Vice Chair
John H. Stewart IV, MD, MBA, Vice Chair
Josep Tabernero, MD, Vice Chair
Sarah K. Tasian, MD, Vice Chair
Judith A. Varner, PhD, Vice Chair
Matthew G. Vander Heiden, MD, PhD, Vice Chair
Teresa A. Zimmers, PhD, Vice Chair

Annual Meeting Clinical Trials Committee

Shivaani Kummar, MD
Timothy A. Yap, MD, PhD

Annual Meeting Education Committee

Carlos M. Caldas, MD, PhD
Anna Karolina Palucka, MD, PhD

Scientific Achievement Award Committee Chairs

AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Hans Clevers, MD, PhD, FAACR

AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Blood Cancer Research Committee

Mignon Lee-Cheun Loh, MD

AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research Committee

Chudi O. Ndubaku, PhD

AACR Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Award Committee

Lorelei A. Mucci, ScD, MPH

AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology Committee

Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD

AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research Committee

Nancy E. Davidson, MD, FAACR

AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities Committee

Gerardo Colón-Otero, MD

AACR Ewing-Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pathology in Cancer Research Committee

Roy A. Jensen, MD

AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD

AACR Laboratory Research Award Committee

Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD

AACR Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research Committee

Patricia LoRusso, DO, PhD

AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Memorial Lectureship Committee

Lorna Rodriguez-Rust, MD

AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research Committee

Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH

AACR Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship Committee

Rakesh K. Jain, PhD, FAACR

AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatric Cancer Research Committee

Susan L. Cohn, MD

AACR Team Science Award Committee

Jennifer Rubin Grandis, MD, FAACR

AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translation and Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Anne S. Tsao, MD

AACR-WICR Charlotte Friend Memorial Lectureship Committee

Sheila K. Singh, MD, PhD

Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Lisa M. Coussens, PhD, FAACR

Specialty Committee Chairs

AACR Cancer Progress Report Steering Committee

Lisa M. Coussens, PhD, FAACR

AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report Steering Committee

Lisa A. Newman, MD, MPH

AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism Judging Panel

Clifton Leaf, MS

AACR Project Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange (GENIE) Steering Committee

Philippe Bedard, MD, FRCPC

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