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Scientific Review Committees

Research funding scientific review committees serve in the significant role of selecting recipients of AACR’s research grants for independent investigators, junior faculty and postdoctoral/clinical research fellows. For more information about AACR funding opportunities, please visit the AACR funding page.

2023-2024 AACR-AstraZeneca Career Development Award for Physician-Scientists, in Honor of José Baselga Scientific Review Committee

Chair
Luis A. Diaz, MD

Members
Joan Albanell, MD
Michael F. Berger, PhD
Malcolm V. Brock, MD
Javier Cortés, MD, PhD
Steven Gallinger, MD
Joanna L. Groden, PhD
Michaela J. Higgins, MD
Patrick Hwu, MD
Cigall Kadoch, PhD
Anthony G. Letai, MD, PhD
Roger S. Lo, MD, PhD
Erminia Massarelli, MD, PhD
Gordon B. Mills, MD, PhD, FAACR
Patrick Nana-Sinkam, MD
Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD
Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil
Pranela Rameshwar, PhD
Pedram Razavi, MD, PhD
Violeta Serra, PhD
Zsofia K. Stadler, MD
Christos Sotiriou, MD, PhD
Laura Soucek, PhD
Vivek Subbiah, MD
Debasish Tripathy, MD
Jen Jen Yeh, MD

2023-2024 AACR Basic Cancer Research Grants Scientific Review Committee

Chair
Dean W. Felsher, MD, PhD

Members
Sandeep Burma, PhD
Janai R. Carr-Ascher, MD, PhD
Jason S. Carroll, PhD
Eric A. Collisson, MD
Nicholas C. Denko, MD, PhD
Trevor Graham, PhD
Matthew M. Gubin, PhD
James B. Hicks, PhD
Tobias Janowitz, MD, PhD
Carla Koehler, PhD
Solange Landreville, PhD
Marco A. Marra, PhD
Darrion L Mitchell, MD, PhD
Shyam Nyati, PhD
Bogdan Pasaniuc, PhD
Takita Sumter, PhD
Edward William Tate, PhD
Javier F. Torres-Roca, MD
Anna Woloszynska, PhD
Li-Wha Wu, PhD
Binhua Peter Zhou, MD, PhD

2023-2024 AACR Breast Cancer Research Grants Scientific Review Committee

Chair
Charles M. Perou, PhD, FAACR

Members
Anne H. Blaes, MD
Iona C. Cheng, PhD, MPH
Bisrat G. Debeb, DVM, PhD
Douglas Easton, PhD
Patricia A. Ganz, MD, FAACR
Christy R. Hagan, PhD
Jacqueline D. Jones, PhD
Rama Khokha, PhD
Jennifer Keating Litton, MD
Hui-Wen Lo, PhD
Lucio Miele, MD, PhD
Katherine L. Nathanson, MD
Nick Orr, PhD
Linda J.Z., Penn, PhD
Aleix Prat, MD, PhD
Manjeet K. Rao, PhD
Qiang Shen, MD, PhD
Jennifer Sims-Mourtada, PhD
Kalliopi P Siziopikou, MD, PhD
Joseph A. Sparano, MD
Daniel G. Stover, MD
Mylin A. Torres, MD
Linda T. Vahdat, MD
Shizhen Emily Wang, PhD
Joanne B. Weidhaas,
MD, PhD, MSM
Jelle Wesseling, MD, PhD
Jovanny Zabaleta, PhD

2023-2024 AACR Clinical and Translational Cancer Research Grants Scientific Review Committee

Chair
David Malkin, MD

Members
Onyinye D. Balogun, MD
Michael A. Carducci, MD
Eleonora Dondossola, PhD
Mark Emberton, MD
Dean A. Fennell, FRCP, PhD
Andrew C. Hsieh, MD
Joseph Markowitz, MD, PhD
Shannon McWeeney, PhD
Zachary Morris, MD, PhD
Rita Nanda, MD
Allyson J. Ocean, MD
Raymond U Osarogiagbon, MD
Sameek Roychowdhury, MD, PhD
Livio Trusolino, MD, PhD
Jeffrey W. Tyner, PhD
Wei Xu, PhD
Mark Yarchoan, MD

2023-2024 AACR Immuno-oncology Research Grants Scientific Review Committee

Chair
Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD

Members
Samuel E. Adunyah, PhD
Ido Amit, PhD
Djordje Atanackovic, MD
Justin M. Balko, PharmD, PhD
Sidi Chen, PhD
Sandra P. D’Angelo, MD
Daniel D. de Carvalho, PhD
Greg M. Delgoffe, PhD
Adi Diab, MD
Andrea Facciabene, PhD
Terry J. Fry, MD
Stephanie L. Goff, MD
Sergei I. Grivennikov, PhD
Kevin J. Harrington, MD, PhD
Christian S. Hinrichs, MD
Ping-Chih Ho, PhD
Richard C. Koya, MD, PhD
Lewis L. Lanier, PhD
Evan F. Lind, PhD
Thomas G. Martin, MD
Marcela V. Maus, MD, PhD
Tara C. Mitchell, MD
Jorge J. Nieva, MD
Mary Philip, MD, PhD
Jeffrey C. Rathmell, PhD
Nadeem Riaz, MD, MSc
Stephen L. Shiao, MD, PhD
David R. Soto-Pantoja, PhD
Vivek Subbiah, MD
Takemasa Tsuji, PhD
Keith T. Wilson, MD
Jovanny Zabaleta, PhD
Weizhou Zhang, PhD

2023-2024 AACR Maximizing Opportunity for New Advancements in Research in Cancer (MONARCA) Grants for Latin America Scientific Review Committee

Chair
Roger Chammas, MD, PhD

Members
Daniel P. Bezerra, BPharm, PhD
Gloria M. Calaf, PhD
Susana Fiorentino, PhD
Sonia L. Hernandez, MPhil, PhD, RD
Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez, PhD
Luis Alonso Herrera, PhD
Silvia Jiménez-Morales, PhD
Claudia Lanari, PhD
Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, MD, PhD
Lorena Lobos-González, PhD
Vilma R. Martins, PhD
Jaime L. Matta, PhD
Vanina A. Medina, PhD
Stelia C. Mendez-Sanchez, PhD
José Mordoh, MD, PhD
Juan Carlo S. Roa, MD
Eduardo M. Sotomayor, MD
Junior S. Torres-Roman, PhD
Luis Ubillos, MD, PhD, MBA
Luisa L. Villa, PhD

2023-2024 AACR Pediatric Cancer Research Grants Scientific Review Committee

Chair
Rayne H. Rouce, MD

Members
Claudia A. Benavente, PhD
Pablo Berlanga, MD, PhD
Lara E. Davis, MD
Kara M. Kelly, MD
Kai Tan, PhD
Samuel L. Volchenboum, MD, PhD, MS
Gelareh Zadeh, MD, PhD, FRCSC

2023-2024 Lustgarten Foundation-AACR Pancreatic Cancer Research Grants Scientific Review Committee

Chair
Jennifer F. Tseng, MD, MPH

Members
Jennifer M. Bailey-Lundberg, PhD
Andrew V. Biankin, PhD
Elena Gabriela Chiorean, MD
Eric A. Collisson, MD
Edna Cukierman, PhD
Kyle C. Cuneo, MD
Jason B. Fleming, MD
Michael G. Goggins, MD
William G. Hawkins, MD
Theodore S. Hong, MD
Dung Thi Le, MD
Donghui Li, PhD
Gwen Lomberk, PhD
Scott W. Lowe, PhD, FAACR
Ugwuji N. Maduekwe, MD, MMSc, MPH
Peter J. O’Dwyer, MBBCh, MD
Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD
Rushika M. Perera, PhD
Judith S. Sebolt-Leopold, PhD
Mara H. Sherman, PhD
Julie L. Sutcliffe, PhD
Ursina R. Teitelbaum, MD
Susan Tsai, MD
Brian M. Wolpin, MD
Laura DeLong Wood, MD, PhD
Jen Jen Yeh, MD