Candidates for the AACR Nominating Committee
The sequence of candidates was chosen by lottery.
Follow the links to learn more about the candidates and their vision statements.
Caroline Dive, PhD
Interim Director
CRUK Manchester Institute
Director
CRUK Manchester Institute Cancer Biomarker Centre
Adriana Albini, PhD
Scientific Collaborator
European Institute of Oncology (IEU)
Professor of Immunology and General Pathology
Milano Bicocca University
David M. Hyman, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Loxo Oncology at Lilly
James R. Downing, MD
President, Chief Executive Officer, Endowed Chair
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD
Vice Chair for Research and Professor
Associate Director for Cancer Equity, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Southern California
Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Dana‐Farber Cancer Institute
Jonathan D. Licht, MD
Director, The University of Florida Health Cancer Center
The Marshall E. Rinker, Sr. Foundation and David B. and Leighan R. Rinker Chair
The University of Florida
Alan Ashworth, PhD
President
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco