CBC Leadership and Committees

CBC Chairpersons
Assay Validation Committee
Bioinformatics Committee
Biospecimens Committee
Information Sharing Committee

CBC Chairpersons

William N. Hait, M.D.
Ortho Biotech Oncology Research and Development
Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies
Raritan, NJ

Samir N. Khleif, M.D.
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

James H. Doroshow, M.D.
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

Assay Validation Committee

Steven I. Gutman, M.D., Lead Co-Chairperson*
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Washington, DC

Peter E. Barker, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD

Nicholas C. Dracopoli, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson*
Centocor, Inc.
Radnor, PA

Alberto Gutierrez, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson
Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, MD

Steven J. Skates, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

M.J. Finley Austin, Ph.D. Hoffman-La Roche Nutley, NJ	Joan B. Levy, Ph.D. Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Norwalk, CT
Robert L. Becker, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration Rockville, MD	Elizabeth Mansfield, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration Rockville, MD
Robert C. Bast, Jr., M.D. UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX	Karen M. Maurey National Cancer Institute Rockville, MD
Donald A. Berry, Ph.D. UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX	George B. Moseley, III, MBA, JD Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
Linda A. Bradley, Ph.D.* Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island Gray, ME	Richard Naples Becton, Dickinson and Company Franklin Lakes, NJ
Peter F. Bross, M.D. Food and Drug Administration Rockville, MD	James P. Omel, M.D. Central Nebraska Multiple Myeloma Support Group Grand Island, NE
Mark Chang, Ph.D. Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Cambridge, MA	Michael S. Orr, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, MD
Adam Michael Clark, Ph.D.* Lance Armstrong Healthcare Foundation Austin, TX	Gene A. Pennello, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration Rockville, MD
Viswanath Devanarayan, Ph.D. Abbott Laboratories Parsippany, NJ	William J. Pignato Genentech, Inc. South San Francisco, CA
Lynn G. Dressler, Dr.PH. UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	David F. Ransohoff, M.D. UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
David B. Endres, Ph.D. USC-Keck School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA	Laura H. Reid, Ph.D.* Conatus Consulting, LLC Raleigh, NC
Russel K. Enns, Ph.D. Cepheid Sunnyvale, CA	Henry Rodriguez, Ph.D., MBA National Cancer Institute Bethesda, MD
Fred J. Frullo Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Princeton, NJ	Richard L. Schilsky, M.D. University of Chicago Chicago, IL
Courtney C. Harper Food and Drug Administration Rockville, MD	Robert Schueren Genentech, Inc. South San Francisco, CA
Daniel F. Hayes, M.D. University of Michigan Cancer Center Ann Arbor, MI	Richard M. Simon, D.Sc. National Cancer Institute Bethesda, MD
M. Carolina Hinestrosa, M.A., M.P.H.† National Breast Cancer Coalition Washington, DC	Patrick M. Sluss, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Lois Hinman, Ph.D. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation East Hanover, NJ	John J. Sninsky, Ph.D. Celera Diagnostics Alameda, CA
Andrew Hruszkewycz, M.D., Ph.D. National Cancer Institute Bethesda, MD	Sudhir Srivastava, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute Rockville, MD
Pearl S. Huang, Ph.D. Merck & Co. North Wales, PA	Sheila E. Taube, Ph.D.* ST – Consulting Bethesda, MD
J. Milburn Jessup, M.D. National Cancer Institute Bethesda, MD	Jeremy M.G. Taylor, Ph.D. University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Malik E. Juweid, M.D. University of Iowa, College of Medicine Iowa City, IA	Laura J. van ’t Veer, Ph.D.* The Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam, Netherlands
Francis Kalush, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration Rockville, MD	Lakshmi Vishnuvajjala, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration Rockville, MD
Karen L. Kaul, M.D., Ph.D.* NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston, IL	Sue-Jane Wang, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, MD
Gary Kelloff, M.D. National Cancer Institute Rockville, MD	Janet A. Warrington, Ph.D. Affymetrix, Inc. Santa Clara, CA
George G. Klee, M.D., Ph.D. Mayo Clinic and Foundation Rochester, MN	Michael S. Watson, Ph.D., FACMG American College of Medical Genetics Bethesda, MD
Walter H. Koch, Ph.D. Roche Molecular Systems Pleasanton, CA	Russell S. Weiner, Ph.D. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Lawrenceville, NJ
Steven Lemery, M.D. Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, MD	Judy Yost, M.A., M.T. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Baltimore, MD

Bioinformatics Committee

Gunaretnam Rajagopal, Ph.D., Lead Co-Chairperson*
Cancer Institute of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ

Kenneth H. Buetow, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

Weida Tong, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson
FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research
Jefferson, AR

Greg Tucker-Kellogg, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson
Lilly - Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery
Singapore

J. Robert Beck, M.D. Fox Chase Cancer Center Philadelphia, PA	Weichung Joe Shih, Ph.D. Cancer Institute of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ
Barbara M. Bryant, Ph.D.* Constellation Pharmaceuticals Cambridge, MA	Nathan Siemers, Ph.D. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Princeton, NJ
Daniel Crichton, M.S. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA	John Speakman National Cancer Institute Rockville, MD
Paula Kim Translating Research Across Communities Network Fallbrook, CA	Patty Spears Patient Advocate Raleigh, NC
Martin W. McIntosh, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA	Sudhir Srivastava, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute Rockville, MD
Timothy O’Leary, M.D., Ph.D. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Washington, DC	Blaze A. Stancampiano* Booz Allen Hamilton Washington, DC
Michael S. Orr, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, MD	Zhen Zhang, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
Joel H. Saltz, M.D., Ph.D. Ohio State University Columbus, OH	JoAnne Zujewski, M.D. National Cancer Institute Bethesda, MD

Biospecimens Committee

Carolyn Compton, M.D., Ph.D., Lead Co-Chairperson
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

Brian Holloway, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Macclesfield, England

Scott Jewell, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Elizabeth Mansfield, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson
Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, MD

Kerry L. Blanchard, M.D., Ph.D. Eli Lilly & Company Indianapolis, IN	Irina A. Lubensky, M.D. National Cancer Institute Rockville, MD
L. Mark Cosentino, DPM, Ph.D. SAIC-Frederick, Inc. Frederick, MD	Glenn A. Miller, Ph.D. Genzyme Analytical Services Westborough, MA
Kerstin A. David, Ph.D. Indivumed GmbH Hamburg, Germany	Brian P. Mullaney, M.D., Ph.D. Eli Lilly & Company Indianapolis, IN
Maryellen de Mars, Ph.D. The Critical Path Institute Rockville, MD	Reena Philip, Ph.D. Food and Drug Administration Rockville, MD
Lynn G. Dressler, Dr. P.H. UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	Stephen J. Qualman, M.D.† Children's Hospital Research Institute Columbus, OH
Ian M. Fore, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute Rockville, MD	Elizabeth M. Rohlfs, Ph.D. Genzyme Analytical Services Westborough, MA
Patricia Goldman Ovarian Cancer National Alliance Washington, DC	Mark E. Sobel, M.D., Ph.D. American Society for Investigative Pathology Bethesda, MD
Elizabeth H. Hammond, M.D. University of Utah School Salt Lake City, UT	Howard M. Stern, M.D., Ph.D. Genentech, Inc. South San Francisco, CA
Richard G. Hegele, M.D., FRCPC, Ph.D.* University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario	Elizabeth A. Thompson* Susan G. Komen for the Cure Dallas, TX
Hartmut H. Juhl, M.D., Ph.D. Indivumed GmbH Hamburg, Germany

Information Sharing Committee

George D. Demetri, M.D., Lead Co-Chairperson
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA

Kapil Dhingra, M.B.B.S., Co-Chairperson*
KAPital Consulting LLC
Sparta, NJ

Gary J. Kelloff, M.D., Co-Chairperson
National Cancer Institute
Rockville, MD

Richard Pazdur, M.D., Co-Chairperson
Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, MD

Martin J. Adelman, M.S., J.D. George Washington University Washington, DC	Louise Barnett Grochow, M.D. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Waltham, MA
Jeffrey Alexander, Ph.D. Washington CORE LLC Bethesda, MD	Josephine Johnston, LLB, MBHL The Hastings Center Garrison, NY
J. Carl Barrett, Ph.D. Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Cambridge, MA	Sara Kenkare-Mitra, Ph.D. Genentech, Inc. South San Francisco, CA
David D. Chang, M.D., Ph.D. Amgen, Inc. Thousand Oaks, CA	David Pensak, Ph.D. V.i. Laboratories, Inc. Wilmington, DE
John M. Engel, Esq. Engel & Novitt, LLP Washington, DC	Dominic G. Spinella, Ph.D. Pfizer, Inc. San Diego, CA
Cindy Geoghegan* Patient and Partners LLC Wilton, CT	Gillian R. Woollett, M.A., D.Phil. Engel & Novitt, LLP Washington, DC
David S. Grayzel, M.D. Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Cambridge, MA

*During the planning and implementation of the CBC’s work, Dr. Khleif was Special Assistant to the Commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD; Dr. Gutman was at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD; Dr. Dracopoli was at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ; Dr. Bradley was at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Dr. Clark was at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; Dr. Kaul was at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Dr. Reid was at Expression Analysis, Inc., Durham, NC; Dr. Taube was at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; for some of this period, Dr. van’t Veer was on sabbatical at UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; Dr. Rajagopal was at the Bioinformatics Institute of Singapore; Dr. Bryant was at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA; Mr. Stancampiano was at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, MA; Dr. Hegele was at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Ms. Thompson was at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, El Segundo, CA; Dr. Dhingra was at Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, NJ; Ms. Geoghagen was at the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Wilton, CT.

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