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PCWG Steering Committee

E. Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD
Chair

E. Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD

(2023-2025)

Chief, Division of Pediatric Oncology
Benioff UCSF Professor of Children’s Health
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Katherine A. Janeway, MD
Past-Chair

Katherine A. Janeway, MD

(2023-2024)

Director of Clinical Genomics
Senior Physician
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Boston Children’s Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

Sam Behjati, MD

Sam Behjati, MD

(2022-2025)

Group Leader and Wellcome Senior Research Fellow
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Julia L. Glade Bender, MD

Julia L. Glade Bender, MD

(2021-2024)

Vice Chair for Clinical Research
Department of Pediatrics
Member, Sarcoma Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Alejandro Gutierrez, MD

Alejandro Gutierrez, MD

(2021-2024)

Principal Investigator
Attending Physician
Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Douglas S. Hawkins, MD

Douglas S. Hawkins, MD

(2022-2025)

Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Group Chair
Children’s Oncology Group
Seattle, Washington

Meredith S. Irwin, MD

Meredith S. Irwin, MD

(2021-2024)

Paediatrician-in-Chief
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Canada

Nada Jabado, MD, PhD

Nada Jabado, MD, PhD

(2022-2025)

Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Pediatric Oncology
McGill University
Montreal, Canada 

Leona Knox, Bsc

Leona Knox, Bsc

(2021-2024)

Head Of Research
Solving Kids’ Cancer UK
Belfast, United Kingdom

Corinne M. Linardic, MD, PhD

Corinne M. Linardic, MD, PhD

(2022-2025)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Cell Biology
Duke University School of Medicine
Member, Duke Cancer Institute
Durham, North Carolina

Paul A. Northcott, PhD

Paul A. Northcott, PhD

(2021-2024)

Faculty, Associate Member
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Nashville, Tennessee

Gudrun Schleiermacher, MD PhD 

Gudrun Schleiermacher, MD PhD 

(2022-2025)

SIREDO Integrated Pediatric Oncology Center
Delegate Director for Translational Research
Team Leader, RTOP Translational Research In Pediatric Oncology
U830 INSERM
Institut Curie
Paris, France