Cancer Center Leadership
Senior Leadership
Director
Deputy Director
Associate Deputy Director
Programs
Genetic, Epigenetic, and Immune Circuits in Cancer Program
Program Leaders
Ronald Evans, PhD
Professor and DirectorGene Expression Laboratory
March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology
Susan Kaech, PhD
Professor and DirectorNOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
NOMIS Chair
Animal Models and Therapeutics
Program Leaders
Tony Hunter, PhD
American Cancer Society ProfessorMolecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Renato Dulbecco Chair
Clodagh O’Shea, PhD
ProfessorMolecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar
Wicklow Chair
Administration
Executive Director – Leona Flores
Administrative Assistant to the Director – Sara Campbell
Senior Director, External Relations – Sandy Liarakos
Internal Advisory
Senior Director, Grants Development – Kurt Marek
Executive Director Research Operations – Julie Auger
External Advisory Board
David Tuveson, MD, PhD, Chair
Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center
Professor, Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research
Steven Artandi, MD, PhD
Director, Stanford Cancer Institute
Jerome and Daisy Low Gilbert Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor, Medicine, Medical Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Robert Schreiber, PhD
AM Bursky & JM Bursky Distinguished Professor, Pathology & Immunology
Director, Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs
Program Leader, Tumor Immunology, Siteman Cancer Center
Washington University School of Medicine
Laura J. van’t Veer, PhD
Leader, Breast Oncology Program, and Director, Applied Genomics
Angela and Shu Kai Chan Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Matt Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Biology
Associate Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Member, MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine
Member, Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology
Chad A. Ellis, PhD
Deputy Director, Research Administration
Hillman Cancer Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center