Board of Directors (2025-2028)
Charles W. M. Roberts, MD, PhD, is the director of the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center and an executive vice president of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Roberts studies cancer epigenetics. Specifically, his laboratory focuses on the SWI/SNF (BAF) chromatin remodeling complex as genes that encode SWI/SNF subunits are collectively mutated in over 20% of all cancers. His lab studies both the mechanisms by which SWI/SNF normally regulates chromatin structure and cell fate, and the mechanisms by which mutation of the complex drives cancer formation. Roberts received his medical and doctoral degrees from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed his pediatric residency and pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Roberts has been elected to the Society for Pediatric Research, American Society of Clinical Investigation, American Association of Physicians, and American Pediatric Society.
AACR Board of Directors