PSSCRA Scientific Review Council

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  Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD

  Endowed Professor of Cell Biology, Director, Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment Institute, Director, Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Co-Leader, Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Visit website
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  Iannis Aifantis, PhD

  Hermann M. Biggs Professor, Chair of the Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist Visit website
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  Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD

  Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Medicine, Executive Vice President and Vice Dean for Science, Chief Scientific Officer, NYU Langone Medical Center Visit website
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  Emily Bernstein, PhD

  Professor, Departments of Oncological Sciences and Dermatology, Cancer Mechanisms Program Co-leader, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Visit website
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  Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD

  Ward Coleman Chair in Cancer Research, Director of Immunotherapy, Co-Director, Cancer Immunology Program, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Visit website
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  John Blenis, PhD

  Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Professor Cancer Research, Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Pharmacology Ph.D. Program, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine Visit website
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  Jef D. Boeke, PhD

  Director, Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone Health; Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Visit website
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  Ali H. Brivanlou, PhD

  Robert & Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, Head of Laboratory of Synthetic Embryology, The Rockefeller University; Professor Adjunct, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture; Co-founder, Rumi Scientific Inc. Visit website
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  Jacqueline Bromberg, MD, PhD

  Associate Professor, Breast Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Visit website
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  Ross Cagan, PhD

  Regius Chair, Precision MedicineScientific Director, Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research CentreInstitute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow Visit website
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  Andrea Califano, PhD

  President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York; Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, Columbia University Visit website
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  Lewis Cantley, PhD

  Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Adjunct Professor, Cancer Biology in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine; 2013 Breakthrough Prize Winner Visit website
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  Timothy A. Chan, MD, PhD

  Chair, Dept. of Cancer Sciences, Director, Enterprise Cancer Research and Center for Immunotherapy and Immuno-Oncology, Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Chair in Oncology Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic & Case Western School of Medicine Visit website
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  Moses V. Chao, PhD

  Professor of Cell Biology, Physiology and Neuroscience, and Psychiatry, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU Langone School of Medicine Visit website
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  Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD

  Professor of Clinical Medicine, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Director, Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center Visit website
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  Arvin Dar, PhD

  Member and Tri-Institutional Professor, Chemical Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute; Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Visit website
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  Luis A. Diaz, MD

  Head, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology, Grayer Family Chair, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Visit website
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  Camila Dos Santos, PhD

  Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Visit website
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  Olivier Elemento, PhD

  Director, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Associate Director, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Associate Director, Clinical & Translational Science Center, Weill Cornell Medicine Visit website
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  Adolfo A. Ferrando, MD, PhD

  Executive Director, Therapeutic Area Genetics-Oncology Regeneron Genetics Center Visit website
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  Richard I. Gregory, PhD

  Chair, Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, UMass Chan Medical School Visit website
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  Clifford Hudis, MD

  Chief Executive Officer, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO); Executive Vice Chair, Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation Visit website
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  Maria Jasin, PhD

  Member, Developmental Biology Program and Center for Stem Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Visit website
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  Dan Landau, MD, PhD

  Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine; Core member, New York Genome Center Visit website
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  Ross L. Levine, MD

  Chief Scientific Officer, Senior Vice President, Memorial Hospital, Translational Research, and Edward P. Evans Endowed Chair for Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Visit website
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  David C. Lyden, MD, PhD

  Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine; Pediatric Neuro-oncology Attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Visit website
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  Christopher E. Mason, PhD

  Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine, Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine Visit website
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  Joan Massagué, PhD

  Executive Director, GMTEC and Director, Sloan Kettering Institute; Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Visit website
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  Christine Mayr, MD, PhD

  Member, Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Computational Biology & Medicine, Weill Cornell Graduate College Visit website
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  Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

  Dean, Translational Research and Therapeutic Innovation; Chair, Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy; Director, Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Visit website
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  Nickolas Papadopoulos, PhD

  Professor of Oncology, Pathology, and Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center; Director of Translational Genetics, Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University Visit website
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  Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD

  Icahn Scholar, Ward-Coleman Chair in Cancer Research, Professor & Chair, Department of Oncological Sciences, Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Director, Mount Sinai Cancer, Mount Sinai Health System, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Visit website
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  Frank J. Rauscher, III, PhD

  Co-Founder, Innate Biologics; Professor of the Gene Expression and Regulation, The Wistar Institute; Professor of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Visit website
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  Raphaël Rodriguez, PhD

  Skłodowska-Curie Chair of Chemical Biology, Institut Curie - CNRS Visit website
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  David M. Sabatini, MD, PhD

  Sr. Group Leader, Prague & Boston, IOCB (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences) Visit website
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  Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD

  Director, Columbia Initiative in Cell Engineering and Therapy, Director, Cancer Cell Therapy Initiative, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Visit website
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  Mara Sherman, PhD

  Associate Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Visit website
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  Mihaela Skobe, PhD

  Associate Professor, Department of Oncological Sciences, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Visit website
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  David Tuveson, MD, PhD

  Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Therapeutics, Director, Cancer Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Chief Scientist, Lustgarten Foundation Visit website
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  Christopher R. Vakoc, MD, PhD

  Alan and Edith Seligson Professor of Cancer Research, Cancer Center Deputy Director, and Cancer and Molecular Biology Program Chair, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Visit website
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  Richard White, MD, PhD

  Professor of Genetics, Ludwig Cancer Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford Visit website
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  Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD

  Meyer Director, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University Visit website
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  Bruce Zetter, PhD

  Charles Nowiszewski Professor of Cancer Biology, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School Visit website