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Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award

Selection Committee

CHAIR

Ralph J. DeBerardinis, MD, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Children's Research Institute Chief, Division of Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism
Director, Genetic and Metabolic Disease Program Joel B. Steinberg, MD Chair in Pediatrics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 
Dallas, Texas

VICE CHAIR

Mignon Loh, MD
Division Chief, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Cellular Therapies
Seattle Children's Hospital Director, Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research
Seattle Children's Research Institute Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington
Head, Pediatric Oncology Section Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD
Chairman
Department of Pediatric Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

Howard A. Fine, MD
Director, Weill Cornell Brain Tumor Center
Associate Director, Translational Research Meyer Cancer Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

Dan Laheru, MD
Professor of Oncology
Ian T. MacMillan Professorship in Clinical Pancreatic Cancer Research The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Daniel C. Link, MD
Alan and Edith Wolf Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Oncology Deputy Director, Siteman Cancer Center
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

Ramon E. Parsons, MD, PhD
Icahn Scholar
Ward-Coleman Chair in Cancer Research Professor and Chair, Department of Oncological Sciences
Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Director, Mount Sinai Cancer, Mount Sinai Health System
New York, New York

Ann Partridge, MD, MPH
Vice Chair of Medical Oncology
Director, Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer Director, Adult Survivorship Program
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Brookline, Massachusetts

Katerina Politi, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology and Medicine (Section of Medical Oncology)
Scientific Director, Center for Thoracic Cancers
Co-Leader, Cancer Signaling Networks Research Program
Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
 

Vered Stearns, MD, FASCO
Director for Translational Breast Cancer Research
Hematology and Medical Oncology Associate Director for Clinical Services
Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, FAACR, FASCO
Meyer Director, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

J. Robert Beck, MD
Professor Emeritus
H.O. West and J.R. Wike Chair in Cancer Research
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ross L. Levine, MD
Senior Vice President, Memorial Hospital, Translational Research
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York