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Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award

Selection Committee

CO-CHAIR

Julien Sage, PhD
Professor
Department of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology) and Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

CO-CHAIR

Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Cancer Biology Division
Department of Radiation Oncology
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri
 

Christin E. Burd, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes
Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Genomics
Professor of Dermatology and Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Chuan He, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Peter P. Lee, MD
Billy Wilder Endowed Professor
Chair, Department of Immuno-Oncology
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Duarte, California

Ming Li, PhD
Member, Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute
Professor, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School
Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Faculty Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

David S. Pellman, MD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Theodora S. Ross, MD, PhD
Vice President, Early Oncology R&D
Bay Area Site Head
AbbVie, Inc.
South San Francisco, California

Stephen T. Smale, PhD
Vice Dean for Research
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Distinguished Professor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Sherie L. and Donald G. Morrison Chair, Molecular Immunology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Benjamin P. Tu, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor UT Southwestern Presidential Scholar
Martha Steiner Professorship in Medical Research W. W. Caruth, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research
Department of Biochemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas