AACR Foundation Leadership
Officers
Stephen D. Ryan
Merrill Lynch Private Banking and Investment Group
Pittsford, New York
Bayard D. Clarkson, MD, FAACR
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)
American Association for Cancer Research
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Trustees
Christiana Bardon, MD, MBA
Co-managing Partner, BioImpact Capital
Thomas Bown II
James V. Buzzitta, MD
Hughes Management, LC
Lisa M. Coussens, PhD, FAACR, FAIO
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
Oregon Health and Science University
Nancy E. Davidson, MD, FAACR
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD, FAACR
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Cathy Fraser, MBA
WelbeHealth
Philip D. Greenberg, MD, FAACR
Rona Jaffe Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor and Head of the Program in Immunology
William N. Hait, MD, PhD, FAACR
Johnson & Johnson External Innovation
Tonya Hallett
Amazon
Richard A. Heyman, PhD
Vividion Therapeutics; Metacrine, Inc.; ORIC Pharmaceuticals
Michael E. Jesanis
Eleanor D. Kress, MBA, JD
Wilmington Trust Retirement and Institutional Services Co.
John E. Leonard, PhD
Vaccinex, Inc.
Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, PhD (hc), FAACR
Yale Cancer Center
Yale University
Anil K. Rustgi, MD
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University
Ajit Singh, PhD
Artiman Ventures
Trustees Emeriti
José Baselga, MD, PhD, FAACR†
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, FAACR
Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH, FAACR
Tyler Jacks, PhD, FAACR
Sherry Lansing
Laurence J. Marton, MD
Frank McCormick, PhD, FAACR
Charles L. Sawyers, MD, FAACR
†Deceased 2021
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