American Association for Cancer Research

Leadership

Steering Committee

Bruce R. Zetter, Ph.D., Chairperson

Chief Scientific Officer, Children's Hospital Boston
Charles Nowiszewski Professor of Cancer Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
bruce.zetter@tch.harvard.edu

Adriana Albini, Ph.D.

Responsabile Ricerca Oncologica, Polo Scientifico e Tecnologico
IRCCS Multimedica, Milan, Italy
adriana.albini@multimedica.it

Menashe Bar-Eli, Ph.D. 

Professor, Department of Cell Biology
UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
mbareli@mdanderson.org

Sara A. Courtneidge, Ph.D.

Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA
courtneidge@burnham.org

Lisa M. Coussens, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center & Cancer Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
coussens@cc.ucsf.edu

Yves A. DeClerck, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
USC Keck's School of Medicine, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
declerck@usc.edu

Lee M. Ellis, M.D.

Professor of Surgery & Cancer Biology
The John E. and Dorothy J. Harris Professor in Gastrointestinal Cancer Research
UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
lellis@mdanderson.org

Ilan R. Kirsch, M.D.

Executive Director
Amgen, Inc.
lkirsch@amgen.com

Suresh Mohla, Ph.D.

Chief, Tumor Biology & Metastasis Branch
National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20892
mohlas@mail.nih.gov

Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D. 

Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medical Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
kornelia_polyak@dfci.harvard.edu

Beverly A. Teicher, Ph.D.

Vice President, Oncology Research
Genzyme Corporation, Framingham, MA
beverly.teicher@genzyme.com

Fernando Vidal-Vanaclocha, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Human Histology, Department of Cell Biology and Histology
Basque Country University School of Medicine, Leioa, SPAIN
gcpvivaf@lg.ehu.es

Danny R. Welch, Ph.D.

Professor
University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
danwelch@uab.edu

Isaac P. Witz, Ph.D. 

Professor of Immunology, Department of Cell Research & Immunology
Tel Aviv University, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
ipwitz@post.tau.ac.il