Candidates for the AACR Nominating Committee
The sequence of candidates was chosen by lottery.
Click on each candidate’s name to learn more about them and read their vision statement.
Massimo Loda, MD
David D. Thompson Professor
Weill Cornell Medical College
Chairman of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Pathologist-in-Chief
New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York
Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD
Director of Immunotherapy
Medical Director, Vaccine and Cell Therapy Laboratory
The Tisch Cancer Institute
New York, New York
Nickolas Papadopoulos, PhD
Professor
Oncology and Pathology
Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Director of Translational Genetics
Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Mariana Carla Stern, PhD
Vice-Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Professor
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Ira Goodman Chair in Cancer Research
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Associate Director of Population Sciences
Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Program Director, Master’s Degree Programs in Epidemiology
Program Director, CaRE2 Health Equity Center
Los Angeles, California
Karen H. Vousden, PhD, FAACR
Principal Group Leader
The Francis Crick Institute
London, United Kingdom
Anirban Maitra, MBBS
Professor of Pathology and Translational Molecular Pathology
Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Distinguished University Chair in Cancer Research
Scientific Director, Sheikh Ahmed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Nancy E. Davidson, MD, FAACR
Executive Vice President, Clinical Affairs
Professor, Clinical Research Division
Raisbeck Endowed Chair for Collaborative Research
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, Washington
Jos Jonkers, PhD
Head and Senior Group Leader
Division of Molecular Pathology
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Professor of Molecular Experimental Oncogenetics and Cancer Therapeutics
Leiden University
Leiden, Netherlands