AACR Project GENIE®: Governance
AACR Project GENIE® is governed by a steering committee comprised of one representative from each participating institution, one of whom is the chairperson. The Steering Committee reports to an external advisory board and the AACR Board of Directors.
The Executive Committee, a subset of the Steering Committee, comprises a smaller set of voting members that handle more time-sensitive decisions. The AACR chief executive officer or their designee, the AACR president or their designee, and a member of the AACR Science Policy and Government Affairs and Clinical and Translational Cancer Research Committees serve on the Executive Committee. One representative from each of the project’s strategic partners, Sage BioNetworks and cBioPortal, serves on the Executive Committee as ex officio members.
Charles L. Sawyers, MD
(Founding Chairperson 2015-2020)Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair
Philippe Bedard, MD, FRCPC
(Chairperson 2021-2024)Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto
Fabrice Andre, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Medical Oncology
Institut Gustave Roussy
Alexander Baras
Director, Pathology Informatics
Associate Professor of Pathology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Christina Curtis, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Genetics, and Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University
Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)
Chief Executive Officer
American Association for Cancer Research
Kevin Haigis, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief Scientific Officer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Brian Henick
Associate Director of Experimental Therapeutics
Director of Translational Research in Aerodigestive Cancers in Medical Oncology
Columbia University
Marilyn Li, MD
Vice Chief, Division of Genomic Diagnostics
Director, Cancer Genomic Diagnostics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Shannon Jones McCall, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Duke University
Gerrit Meijer, MD, PhD
Professor of Oncologic Pathology
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
Christine Micheel
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Molecular Oncology Initiative
Co-leader, Pediatric Malignancies Program
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California, San Francisco
Zenta Walther, MD, PhD
Clinical Director at YNHH Tumor Profiling Laboratory
Director of Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship Program
Yale School of Medicine
Wei Zhang
Director of Center for Cancer Genomics and Precision Oncology
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Victor E. Velculescu, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Cancer Biology and Professor of Oncology and Pathology
Johns Hopkins University Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
James F. Amatruda, MD, PhD
Interim Chief and Interim Director, Cancer and Blood Disease Institute
Head, Basic and Translational Research, Cancer and Blood Disease Institute
Dr. Kenneth O. Williams Chair in Cancer Research
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Rodrigo Dienstmann, MD
Group Leader, Oncology Data Science (ODysSey) Group, VHIO
Research Scientist, Computational Oncology Group, Sage Bionetworks
Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology
Lucio Miele, MD, PhD
Professor and Head, Department of Genetics
Senior Associate Dean of Research, LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Cancer Crusaders Endowed Professor in Cancer Research
The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Kyong Hwa Park (박경화)
Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology
Korea University Anam Hospital
Nikolaus Schultz, PhD
Attending Computational Oncologist, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Affiliate Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Pearl Seo, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Divison of Medical Oncology Department of Medicine
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Lillian L. Siu, MD, FAACR
President (2024-2025)
American Association for Cancer Research
Director, Phase I Clinical Trials Program
Codirector, Robert and Maggie Bras and Family Drug Development Program
Clinical Lead, Tumor Immunotherapy Program
BMO Chair, Precision Cancer Genomics
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto
Peng Wang, MD, PhD
Professor of Molecular Genetics and Surgical Pathology
University of Chicago
Adam Taylor, PhD
Director of Cancer Biology
Sage Bionetworks
Brady Bernard, PhD
Director of Informatics
Providence Cancer Institute
Associate Member of Computational Immuno-oncology
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
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Last Updated: April 17, 2024