TME Steering Committee
Edna Cukierman, PhD
(2024-2026)Professor and Program Leader, Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment
Co-director, Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute
Director, Spatial Proteomics Initiative, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Adjunct Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology
Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ashani T. Weeraratna, PhD
(2025-2026)Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
E.V. McCollum Professor and Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Leila Akkari, PhD
(2024-2027)Group Leader and Associate Professor
Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)
Oncode Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Direna Alonso-Curbelo, PhD
(2024-2027)Group Leader, Inflammation, Tissue Plasticity & Cancer Laboratory
Cancer Science Programme
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Barcelona, Spain
Salvador Aznar Benitah, PhD
(2023-2026)ICREA Professor
Stem Cells and Cancer Lab
Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Barcelona, Spain
Mohamed Bentires-Alj, Pharm., PhD
(2024-2027)Professor of Experimental Surgical Oncology
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biomedicine
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS
(2025-2028)Professor and Chief, Thoracic Oncology
The Gloria and Edmund M. Dunn Chair in Thoracic Oncology
Co-Director, Immune Monitoring Facility
Department of Hematology and Oncology
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lucia Borriello, PhD
(2025-2028)Assistant Professor
Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology
Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Program
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia
Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD
(2023-2026)Associate Professor
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Department of Medicine
The Tisch Cancer Institute
Microscopy CORE
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York
Cosimo Commisso, PhD
(2024-2027)Professor and Program Director
Cancer Metabolism and Microenvironment Program
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
La Jolla, California
David G. DeNardo, PhD
(2023-2026)Professor
Department of Medicine
Oncology Division
Molecular Oncology
Department of Pathology & Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Marcia C. Haigis, PhD
(2023-2026)Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Amanda W. Lund, PhD
(2024-2027)Associate Professor
Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, New York
Sandra S. McAllister, PhD
(2023-2026)Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Member, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Associate Member, Broad Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
Amit Moran, MD, PhD
(2025-2028)Assistant Professor
Department of Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Surgery
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Marina Pasca Di Magliano, PhD
(2025-2028)Associate Professor
Associate Chair of Research
Department of Surgery
University of Michigan
Ann Harbor, Michigan
Ruth Scherz-Shouval, PhD
(2025-2028)Associate Professor
Department of Biomolecular Sciences
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel