TME Steering Committee
Edna Cukierman, PhD
(2026-2027)Professor and Program Leader, Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment
Co-director, Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute
Director, Spatial Proteomics Initiative, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Adjunct Professor, Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology
Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ashani T. Weeraratna, PhD
(2026-2028)Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
E.V. McCollum Professor and Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Jose M. Adrover, PhD
(2026-2029)Group Leader
Francis Crick Institute
London, United Kingdom
Leila Akkari, PhD
(2024-2027)Group Leader and Associate Professor
Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)
Oncode Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Direna Alonso-Curbelo, PhD
(2024-2027)Group Leader, Inflammation, Tissue Plasticity and Cancer Laboratory
Cancer Science Programme
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Barcelona, Spain
Valsamo Anagnostou, MD, PhD
(2026-2029)Alex Grass Professor, Medical Oncology
Codirector, Upper Aerodigestive Malignancies Program
Codirector, Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Program
Co-leader, Lung Cancer Precision Medicine Center of Excellence
Director, Thoracic Oncology Biorepository
Leader, Precision Oncology Analytics
Co-leader, Molecular Tumor Board
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Mohamed Bentires-Alj, Pharm., PhD
(2024-2027)Professor of Experimental Surgical Oncology
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biomedicine
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Cédric Blanpain, PhD, FAACR
(2026-2029)Distinguished Professor
Director, Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer
Université libre de Bruxelles
Bruxelles, Belgium
Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS
(2025-2028)Professor and Chief, Thoracic Oncology
The Gloria and Edmund M. Dunn Chair in Thoracic Oncology
Co-Director, Immune Monitoring Facility
Department of Hematology and Oncology
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lucia Borriello, PhD
(2025-2028)Assistant Professor
Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology
Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Program
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia
Yash Chhabra, PhD
(2026-2026)Assistant Professor
Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Program
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cosimo Commisso, PhD
(2024-2027)Professor and Program Director
Cancer Metabolism and Microenvironment Program
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
La Jolla, California
Karuna Ganesh, MD, PhD
(2026-2029)Associate Member
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Molecular Pharmacology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute and Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Hospital
Director of Metastasis Research, Center for Colorectal Cancer
Associate Program Director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program
New York, New York
Amanda W. Lund, PhD
(2024-2027)Associate Professor
Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, New York
Amit Moran, MD, PhD
(2025-2028)Assistant Professor
Department of Head and Neck Surgery
Division of Surgery
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Marina Pasca Di Magliano, PhD
(2025-2028)Associate Professor
Associate Chair of Research
Department of Surgery
University of Michigan
Ann Harbor, Michigan
Ruth Scherz-Shouval, PhD
(2025-2028)Associate Professor
Department of Biomolecular Sciences
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel