MRA - Key Persons


Amanda Eilian

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Able Partners

Ana Carrizosa Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Neurology / Harvard Medical School / Associate Scientist, Neurology

Andrew Aplin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Basic Research / Program Leader, Cancer Cell Biology & Signaling

Antoni Ribas

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Medicine / Professor, Surgery / Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

Ashani Weeraratna

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Atlanta Hawks

Job Titles:
  • Owner

Ben Black

Job Titles:
  • Portfolio Manager, Knowledge Universe

Boris Bastian

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair

Caroline Robert - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Carolyn Ricci

Job Titles:
  • Director of Development

Cody Barnett - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications

Craig Slingluff

Job Titles:
  • Joseph Helms Farrow Professor, Surgery / Vice Chair, Research, Department of Surgery / Director, UVA Cancer Center Human Immune

Daisy Helman

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Founder, Garden Collage

David Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Dermatology Service Director, Melanoma Program, MGH Cancer Center Director, Cutaneous Biology Research Center

David H. Koch

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Prostate Cancer Foundation

David Lombard

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Pathology / Research

Debra Black - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Denise Kellen

Job Titles:
  • Patient Advocate / Philanthropist

Drew Pardoll

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Oncology, Medicine, Otolaryngology

Ellen Davis

Job Titles:
  • Principal, Makana Beverages

Elliott Sigal

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor / Venture Partner / New Enterprise Associate

Emily Bernstein

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Oncological Sciences / Professor, Dermatology

Geoffrey Beene

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Director, Marie - Josée & Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology

Glenn Merlino

Job Titles:
  • Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cancer Biology

J. William Harbour

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Ophthalmology

Janine Rauscher

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Development & Information Management

Jason Daniel Federici

Job Titles:
  • Art Director

Jeffrey Gershenwald

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jeffrey Rowbottom

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Iron Park Capital

Jeffrey S. Weber

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director, Perlmutter Cancer Center / Co - Director, Melanoma Research Program

Jennifer Wargo

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Genomic Medicine / Professor, Surgical Oncology

John Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer, MRA Board / Executive Vice President and CFO

Jonathan Sokoloff

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner, Leonard Green & Partners

Jonathan W. Simons - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • President
  • President and CEO / Prostate Cancer Foundation

Joseph Helms Farrow

Job Titles:
  • Joseph Helms Farrow Professor, Surgery / Vice Chair, Research, Department of Surgery / Director, UVA Cancer Center Human Immune

Kai Wucherpfennig

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Cancer Immunology and Virology / Director, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy Research

Keith Flaherty

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Medicine / Harvard Medical School / Director, Henri and Belinda Termeer Center

Kristen Mueller

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director, Scientific Program

Leon Black - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Chairman & CEO, Apollo Management LLC

Lloyd J. Old

Job Titles:
  • Virginia and Daniel K. Ludwig Chair, Clinical Investigation

Marc Hurlbert

Job Titles:
  • Chief Science Officer

Marcus Bosenberg

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Dermatology, Pathology, and

Margaret Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Secretary, MRA Board / Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Maria Bell

Job Titles:
  • Television Writer and Producer

Marisol Soengas

Job Titles:
  • Leader, Melanoma Group / Professor

Martin D. Abeloff

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Cancer Research Director, Bloomberg - Kimmel Institute for Cancer

Mary Jo Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Melanoma Patient / Melanoma Advocate

Michael Kaplan - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • President
  • President and CEO / Melanoma Research Alliance

Michael L. Klowden

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Milken Institute

Michael Milken

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, the Milken Institute

Michal Lotem

Job Titles:
  • Head, Center for Melanoma and Cancer

Nina Bhardwaj

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Medicine and Urology / Director of Immunotherapy / Medical Director of the Vaccine and Cell Therapy

Rachel Fischer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate, Scientific Program and Grants Administration

Renee Orcione

Job Titles:
  • Development Associate

Richard Ressler

Job Titles:
  • Founder & President of Orchard Capital Corporation and CIM Group

Roger Lo

Job Titles:
  • Director, Melanoma Clinic in Dermatology / Director, Dermatology STAR Residency Program / Professor, Medicine

Susan Hess

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chairman, Whitney Museum

Susan Swetter

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Dermatology / Assistant Chief, Dermatology Service Director, Pigmented Lesion & Melanoma Program

Suzanne Topalian

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Surgery and Oncology

Sylvester Comprehensive

Job Titles:
  • Cancer Center Associate Director, Basic Research

Thomas Gajewski

Job Titles:
  • AbbVie Foundation Professor of Cancer / Immunotherapy, of Pathology

Thomas Hornyak

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Dermatology, VA Maryland Health Care System / Associate Professor, Dermatology and Biochemistry

Tyler Brown

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate, Patient Engagement and Operations

Xu Wu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Investigator, Cutaneous Biology Research

Yale SPORE

Job Titles:
  • Director

Young Investigator Awards

Job Titles:
  • Fellow