DAMON RUNYON - Key Persons


Adam R. Schwartz

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  • Co - Managing Partner

Agnel Sfeir

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Paine Webber Chair in Cancer Genetics / Member, Molecular Biology Program

Akinyemi I. Ojesina

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  • Associate Professor / Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology / Medical College of Wisconsin / Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Member of Selection Committee

Alfonso Mondragón

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  • Member of Selection Committee

Amoolya Singh

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Senior Vice President, Bioinformatics and Data Science / Chief Science Officer

Andrew L. Kung - Chairman

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  • Chairman
  • Member of Selection Committee

Andrew R. Zinn

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  • Dean / Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences / University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Dallas, Texas
  • Member of Selection Committee

Andrew S. Rachleff

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  • President and Chief Executive Officer / Wealthfront, Inc. Palo Alto, California

Ann Partridge

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Vice Chair of Medical Oncology / Director, Program for Young Women With Breast Cancer

Anne Murnick Cogan

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  • Department of Medicine / Director, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology
  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Anshul Kundaje

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  • Assistant Professor / Department of Genetics and Computer Science / Stanford University / Stanford, California
  • Member of Selection Committee

Arun Radhakrishnan

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Bay Area Site

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  • Head
  • Member of Selection Committee

Benjamin F. Cravatt

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  • Chairman of Selection Committee
  • Professor and Chair

Benjamin P. Tu

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  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Professor
  • Member of Selection Committee

Buck French

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  • General Partner / X10 Capital / San Francisco, California

Carla Rothlin

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  • Member of Selection Committee

Caroline Uhler

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Cassian Yee

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Charles A. Dana

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  • Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics
  • Member of Selection Committee

Charles S. Fuchs

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  • Senior Vice President - Global Head of Hematology and Oncology Product Development / Genentech

Christin E. Burd

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  • Associate Professor / Department of Molecular Genetics / the Ohio State University / Columbus, Ohio
  • Member of Selection Committee

Christina Curtis

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science

Chuan He

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  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Member of Selection Committee

Claire L. Tow

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  • Chairman, Pediatric Oncology Research / Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center / New York, New York

Clare M. Cahill

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  • Chief Administrative Officer

Cole Trapnell

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  • Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences / Department of Genome Sciences / University of Washington / Seattle, Washington
  • Member of Selection Committee

Corey Sandman

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  • Accounting Manager / Information System Coordinator

Crystal L. Mackall

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  • Ernest and Amelia Gallo Family Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine / Co - Executive Director, Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine
  • Member of Selection Committee

D.K. Ludwig

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  • Member of Selection Committee

Dan Laheru

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor of Oncology

Daniel C. Link

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  • Alan and Edith Wolf Professor of Medicine / Chief, Division of Oncology
  • Member of Selection Committee

Daniel F. Hayes

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  • Member of Selection Committee

Daniel F. Jarosz

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  • Associate Professor / Department of Chemical and Systems Biology / Department of Developmental Biology
  • Member of Selection Committee

David A. Gordon

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  • Strategist / Bridgewater Associates / Westport, CT

David Bilder

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

David G. Marshall

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  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer / Amerimar Realty Company / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

David G. Nathan

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  • Associate Chief, Division of Hematology / Oncology, Boston Children 's Hospital
  • Member of Selection Committee

David M. Beirne

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  • General Partner / X10 Capital / San Francisco, California

David P. Carbone

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor, Division of Medical Oncology / Director, Thoracic Oncology Center

David R. Sherwood

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  • Co - Director Regeneration Next Initiative / Department of Biology
  • Member of Selection Committee

David S. Pellman

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  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Member of Selection Committee

Deborah J. Coleman - Chairman

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  • Chairman

Dee Glen

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  • Ida Smith Endowed Chair for Cancer Research
  • Member of Selection Committee

Dorys McConnell Duberg

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  • Immunobiology and Professor of Pharmacology
  • Member of Selection Committee

Elaine V. Fuchs

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  • Head, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development

Eliezer M. Van Allen

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  • Associate Professor of Medicine / Harvard Medical School / Chief, Division of Population Sciences
  • Member of Selection Committee

Elyse Hoffmann

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  • Senior Director of Partnership Strategy

Emmy Francis

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  • Development Assistant

Eric H. Rubin

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  • Senior Vice President and Therapeutic Area Head / Oncology Early Development / Merck and Co., Inc.

Fred Hutchinson

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  • Head, Pediatric Oncology Section
  • Member of Selection Committee

Gary E. Erlbaum - President

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  • President

Gerald M. Marshall

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  • President & CEO, Netrality Data Centers / Chairman & CEO, Amerimar Enterprises, Inc

Gianna E. Hammer

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  • Associate Professor / Department of Pathology / University of Utah
  • Member of Selection Committee

Grace Kearney

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  • Science Writer

Haley Scott

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  • Events and Marketing Coordinator

Han Liang

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  • Member of Selection Committee

Harry Wm

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  • Distinguished Professor

Howard A. Fine

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  • Director, Weill Cornell Brain Tumor Center / Associate Director, Translational Research
  • Member of Selection Committee

Howard Hughes

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  • Medical Institute Investigator
  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Howard Y. Chang

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  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Member of Selection Committee

Ivan P. Maillard

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor of Hematology - Oncology

J. Robert Beck

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor Emeritus

Janelle Ayres

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor and Laboratory Head

Jared Rutter

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  • Member of Selection Committee

Jason M. Crawford

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Jean Y. Tang

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Jeff Magee

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor of Pediatrics / Director, Leukemia / Lymphoma Program

Joel B. Steinberg

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  • Director, Genetic and Metabolic Disease Program
  • Member of Selection Committee

John H. Myers

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  • President ( Retired ) GE Asset Management / Fairfield, Connecticut

John Lindgren

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  • Director of the Structural Biology Facility / Department of Molecular Biosciences / Northwestern University / Evanston, Illinois
  • Member of Selection Committee

John P. Spain


John T. Wilson

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  • Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology / the University of Chicago / Chicago, Illinois
  • Member of Selection Committee

Joseph Pearlberg

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  • Vice President of Scientific Affairs, Therapeutics / Deerfield Management Company / New York, New York

Joseph R. Osborne

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  • Chairman of the Selection Committee
  • Member of Selection Committee

Joshua C. Munger

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Julie A. Segre

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Senior Investigator / National Human Genome Research Institute

Julie K. Schwarz

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  • Associate Professor / Director, Cancer Biology Division
  • Member of Selection Committee

Julien Sage

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Kara L. McKinley

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  • Assistant Professor
  • Member of Selection Committee

Karen D. Seitz

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  • Founder and Managing Director / Fusion Partners Global LLC / New York, New York

Katerina Politi

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  • Associate Professor
  • Member of Selection Committee

Kathryn A. O'Donnell

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  • Associate Professor / Department of Molecular Biology / University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / Dallas, Texas
  • Member of Selection Committee

Katrin Karbstein

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  • Member of Selection Committee

Ken H. Cadwell

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor of Medicine / Associate Director, Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases

Kimberly Kubert

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  • Senior Director of Special Events

Kwok-Kin Wong

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  • Department of Medicine / Director, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology
  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Lester Wolfe

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor of Molecular Biology / Professor of Biology / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Cambridge, Massachusetts

Levi A. Garraway

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  • Executive Vice President / Chief Medical Officer and Head of Product Development

Lia Gore

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  • Member of Selection Committee

Lucy A. Godley

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  • Jeffrey and Marianne Silver Family Professor of Oncology / Director, Silver Family Blood Cancer Institute
  • Member of Selection Committee

Lyda Hill

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  • Department of Bioinformatics
  • Member of Selection Committee

Margaret M. Dyson

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

Marialice C. Pagnotta


Mark E. Hatley

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  • Associate Member / Director, Molecular Oncology Division
  • Member of Selection Committee

Martin McMahon

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  • Member of Selection Committee

Matthew G. Vander Heiden

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  • Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
  • Member of Selection Committee

Megan Allen

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  • Scientific Director

Meghan McCurdy

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  • Director of Communications and Marketing

Melissa L. Cohn

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  • Regional Vice President / William Raveis Mortgage LLC / Delray Beach, FL

Michael L. Gordon

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  • Vice Chair

Michael V. Seiden - CEO, Founder

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  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Co - Founder

Mignon Loh

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  • Division Chief, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Cellular Therapies / Seattle Children 's Hospital / Director, Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research
  • Member of Selection Committee

Ming Li

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Member of the Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute / Professor, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School

Morana Jovan-Embiricos

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  • Managing Partner / F2 Capital Ventures LLP / London, United Kingdom

Nada Jabado

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor, Department of Pediatrics / McGill University

Nancy Vogel

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  • Administrative Manager

Nickolas Papadopoulos

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor, Oncology and Pathology / Director of Translational Genetics

Noah Knauf

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  • General Partner / Bond Capital / San Francisco, California

Paine Webber

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Paine Webber Chair in Cancer Genetics / Member, Molecular Biology Program

Patrick E. Haggerty

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  • Distinguished Chair in Basic Biomedical Science
  • Member of Selection Committee

Peter Van Camp

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  • Executive Chairman / Equinix, Inc. Redwood City, California

Rajat Rohatgi

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  • Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine ( Oncology ) Stanford University
  • Member of Selection Committee

Ralph J. DeBerardinis

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  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Professor, Children 's Research Institute
  • Member of Selection Committee

Ramon E. Parsons

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor and Chair, Department of Oncological Sciences / Director, the Tisch Cancer Institute

Raymond E. Moellering

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  • Associate Professor / Department of Chemistry / University of Chicago / Chicago, Illinois
  • Member of Selection Committee

Rebecca C. Lancefield

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  • Professor

Richard B. Gaynor - Chairman

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  • Chairman

Richard M. White

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor of Medicine

Richard W. Meier

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  • Director / the Bakewell Foundation / St. Louis, Missouri

Robert H. Lurie

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  • Clinical Director of Cancer Genetics
  • Member of Selection Committee

Robyn Coles

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  • President / TRATE Properties LLC / Boston, Massachusetts

Sanford I. Weill

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  • Department of Medicine
  • Member of Selection Committee

Sanford W. Morhouse

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  • of Counsel / Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP / New York, New York

Sara Jorde

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  • Programs Coordinator

Scott A. Armstrong

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  • Chairman / Department of Pediatric Oncology / Dana - Farber Cancer Institute / Boston, Massachusetts
  • Chairman of Selection Committee
  • President, Dana - Farber / Boston Children 's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center / Chair, Department of Pediatric Oncology

Scott Greenstein

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  • President and Chief Content Officer

Shannon Donovan

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  • Programs Manager

Sidney Farber

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  • Professor of Medicine

Sloan Kettering

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Scientific Director, Metastasis and Tumor Ecosystems Center

Sreekanth Chalasani

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Professor

Stephen T. Smale

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  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Vice Dean for Research / David Geffen School of Medicine

Steven A. Kandarian

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  • Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer ( Retired ) MetLife

Stuart B. Padnos

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  • Breast Cancer Research
  • Member of Selection Committee

Tamara Sutherland

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  • Accountant

Tara O. Henderson

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  • Arthur and Marian Edelstein Professor of Pediatrics / University of Chicago / Chicago, Illinois
  • Member of Selection Committee

Theodora S. Ross

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  • Head, Oncology Research and Development
  • Member of Selection Committee
  • Vice President, Early Oncology R & D

Todd R. Golub - Chairman

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  • Chairman
  • Member of Selection Committee

Travis Carey - CFO

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  • Chief Financial Officer

Vered Stearns

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  • Member of Selection Committee

W. W. Caruth

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  • Member of Selection Committee

William G. Kaelin

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  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Professor of Medicine
  • Member of Selection Committee

Xinwei Cao

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Yung S. Lie - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • President
  • President and Chief Executive Officer / Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation / New York, New York