AACR Foundation Leadership
Officers
Stephen D. Ryan
Merrill Lynch Private Banking and Investment Group
Pittsford, New York
Bayard D. Clarkson, MD, FAACR
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)
American Association for Cancer Research
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Trustees
Christiana Bardon, MD, MBA
Co-managing Partner, BioImpact Capital
Thomas Bown II
James V. Buzzitta, MD
Hughes Management, LC
Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, FAACR
City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute
Nancy E. Davidson, MD, FAACR
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD, FAACR
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Cathy Fraser, MBA
WelbeHealth
Tonya Hallett
Amazon
Justine Hastings, PhD
Vice President and Chief Scientist, Amazon
Richard A. Heyman, PhD
Vividion Therapeutics; Metacrine, Inc.; ORIC Pharmaceuticals
Steven A. Johnson, MD, FACS
MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital and MedStar Union Memorial Hospital
John E. Leonard, PhD
Vaccinex, Inc.
Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, PhD (hc), FAACR
Yale Cancer Center
Yale University
Rachael Ringer
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (US) LLP
Anil K. Rustgi, MD
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University
Ajit Singh, PhD
Flagship Pioneering and Harbinger Health
Lillian L. Siu, MD, FAACR
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Trustees Emeriti
José Baselga, MD, PhD, FAACR†
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, FAACR
Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH, FAACR
Tyler Jacks, PhD, FAACR
Sherry Lansing
Laurence J. Marton, MD
Frank McCormick, PhD, FAACR
Charles L. Sawyers, MD, FAACR
†Deceased 2021
The AACR is governed by a distinguished board elected by its members. Learn more about the AACR Board of Directors.