CEWG Steering Committee
Laura M. Heiser, PhD
(2025-2027)Associate Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Co-Leader, Knight Cancer Institute Quantitative Oncology Program
Associate Director, Complex Systems Modeling, Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon

Anna D. Barker, PhD, FAACR
(2025-2026)Chief Strategy Officer
Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Jeffrey P. Townsend, PhD
(2025-2026)Elihu Professor of Biostatistics
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, Connecticut
Antonio Baines, PhD
(2024-2027)Associate Professor
Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Cancer Research Program
JLC-Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
School of Medicine
Member
Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Christina Curtis, PhD, MSc
(2021-2026)Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Biomedical Data Science
Director, Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Genomics
Director, Breast Cancer Translational Research
Stanford Cancer Institute
Stanford, California

James V. DeGregori, PhD
(2021-2026)Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado
Gad Getz, PhD, FAACR
(2024-2027)Director
Cancer Genome Analysis
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research
Department of Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Jinsong Liu, MD, PhD
(2024-2027)Professor
Departments of Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Cellular Oncology
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Mariangela Russo, PhD
(2025-2028)Associate Professor
Department of Oncology
University of Turin
Turin, Italy

Andriy Marusyk, PhD
(2021-2026)Associate Professor
Department of Cancer Physiology
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida
Trevor Graham, PhD, FMedSci
(2025-2028)Director, Centre for Evolution and Cancer
Institute of Cancer Research
London, United Kingdom

Larry Norton, MD, FAACR
(2021-2026)Department Physician-In-Chief
Breast Cancer Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD
(2024-2027)Winthrop Rockefeller Endowed Chair in Medical Oncology
Section Head
Hepatopancreaticobiliary & Neuroendocrine Cancers
Co-director Medical Initiatives
David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer
Chair
Human Research Protection Program & IRB
Attending Physician
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York
Nic Fisk, PhD
(2025-2028)Assistant Professor
Computational Biology/DBER
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island
Laura Rosenberg, PhD
(2025-2028)Director, Discovery Sciences Target Validation
AstraZeneca, BioPharmaceuticals R&D
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jason A. Somarelli, PhD
(2021-2026)Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Research
Duke Comparative Oncology Group
Duke Cancer Institute
Durham, North Carolina
Louis Vermeulen, MD, PhD
(2024-2027)Vice President
Discovery Oncology
Genentech Inc.
Professor of Molecular Oncology
LEXOR Department
Amsterdam UMC Cancer Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paul S. Mischel MD, FAACR
(2025-2028)Fortinet Founders Professor
Professor, By Courtesy, Department of Neurosurgery
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology
Institute Scholar and Deputy Director, Translational Science, Sarafan ChEM-H
Stanford University
Stanford, California