Professor Sarah-Jane Dawson is a clinician-scientist focused on translational cancer research across the breadth of oncology. She is Deputy Director of the Collaborative Centre for Genomic Cancer Medicine and Head of the Molecular Biomarkers and Translational Genomics Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Professor Dawson is a fellow … Continued
Dan Nomura is a Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology in the Division of Molecular Therapeutics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Co-Director of the Molecular Therapeutics Initiative and an Investigator at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC … Continued
Dr. Bollard is the Senior Vice President and Chief Research Officer and Dr. Robert J. and Florence T. Bosworth Distinguished Professor for Cancer and Transplantation Biology Research and the Director of the Center for Cancer and Immunology Research at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. She is also a Professor of Pediatrics and of Microbiology, Immunology and … Continued
Dr. E. John Wherry is the Director of the Institute for Immunology and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wherry’s expertise focuses on T cell exhaustion in chronic infections and cancer.
Dr. Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD, is Senior Vice President for Drug Discovery and Chief Research Strategy Officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is also the David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Armstrong’s research group has made seminal discoveries into chromatin-based epigenetic mechanisms in cancer, the cells of origin … Continued
Ross Levine, MD, is the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). As CSO, Dr. Levine sets and leads strategy for basic and translational research, including programs, centers, and technology cores. Dr. Levine also serves as the Edward P. Evans Endowed Chair for Myelodysplastic Syndromes at MSK. He is an internationally … Continued
Dr. Mardis is Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and holds the Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair in Genomic Medicine. She also teaches as a Professor of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Mardis served as President of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) from … Continued
Dr. Civin is Director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and also serves as Associate Dean for Research. Before coming to UMD, Dr. Civin held the King Fahd Chair in Pediatric Oncology and the Herman & Walter Samuelson Chair in Cancer Research at … Continued
Dr. Roose is Principal Investigator and Vice Chair of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also a co-founder of UCSF’s ImmunoX, and of Seal Biosciences, Inc., and runs an organoid disease to biology team in UCSF’s Central Research Labs. Dr. Roose’s research has significantly advanced our understanding of the impact Ras-kinase … Continued
