Candidates for the AACR Board of Directors
Voting Closed. The deadline was Saturday, February 28, 2026.
The sequence of candidates was chosen by lottery.
Click on each candidate’s name to learn more about them.
Yu Shyr, PhD, FAACR
Candidate for AACR Board of Directors
Chair, Department of Biostatistics
Harold L. Moses Chair in Cancer Research
Director, Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences (CQS)
Director, Vanderbilt Technologies for Advanced Genomics Analysis and Research Design (VANGARD)
Professor of Biostatistics, Biomedical Informatics, and Health Policy
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee
Ross L. Levine, MD
Candidate for AACR Board of Directors
Senior Vice President, Translational Research in Memorial Hospital
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Sunil Verma, MD
Candidate for AACR Board of Directors
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Oncology Franchise
AstraZeneca
Gaithersburg, Maryland
E. John Wherry III, PhD, FAACR
Candidate for AACR Board of Directors
Barbara and Richard Schiffrin President’s Distinguished Professor
Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
Director, Institute for Immunology and Immune Health
Director, Colton Center for Autoimmunity
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jos Jonkers, PhD
Candidate for AACR Board of Directors
Group Leader, The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Professor of Molecular Experimental Oncogenetics and Cancer Therapeutics, Leiden University
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Christopher I. Li, MD, PhD
Candidate for AACR Board of Directors
Vice President, Faculty Development
Helen G. Edson Endowed Chair for Breast Cancer Research
Professor, Translational Research Program and Epidemiology Program
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Associate Director for Faculty Development
Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer/Seattle Children’s Consortium
Seattle, Washington
Sheila A. Stewart, PhD
Candidate for AACR Board of Directors
Gerty T. Cori Professor
Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology
Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair of Cell Biology and Physiology
Associate Director for Basic Sciences, Siteman Cancer Center
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Ashani T. Weeraratna, PhD
Candidate for AACR Board of Directors
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cancer Biology
E.V. McCollum Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Associate Director for Laboratory Research
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland