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TME Steering Committee

Mikala Egeblad, PhD
Chair

Mikala Egeblad, PhD

(2022-2024)

Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-leader 
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, New York

Edna Cukierman, PhD
Chair-Elect

Edna Cukierman, PhD

(2023-2024)

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

Salvador Aznar Benitah, PhD

Salvador Aznar Benitah, PhD

(2023-2026)

ICREA ProfessorStem Cells and Cancer LabInstitute for Research in Biomedicine
Barcelona, Spain

Adrienne Boire, MD, PhD

Adrienne Boire, MD, PhD

(2021-2024)

Assistant Member
Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Paula D. Bos, PhD

Paula D. Bos, PhD

(2022-2025)

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Cancer Biology Program Co-leader
Massey Cancer Center
Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine
Richmond, Virginia

Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD

Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD

(2023-2026)

Associate ProfessorDivision of Hematology and OncologyDepartment of MedicineThe Tisch Cancer InstituteMicroscopy COREIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, New York

Heather R. Christofk, PhD

Heather R. Christofk, PhD

(2022-2025)

Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Associate Director of Basic and Translational Research
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Los Angeles, California

Leah M. Cook, PhD

Leah M. Cook, PhD

(2021-2024)

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and Microbiology
Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska

David G. DeNardo, PhD

David G. DeNardo, PhD

(2023-2026)

Professor
Department of Medicine
Oncology Division
Molecular Oncology
Department of Pathology & Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

Karin E. de Visser, PhD

Karin E. de Visser, PhD

(2021-2024)

Professor and Group Leader
Division of Tumor Biology and Immunology
Oncode Institute
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Neta Erez, PhD

Neta Erez, PhD

(2022-2025)

Head, Laboratory of Tumor Biology
Department of Pathology
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel

Marcia C. Haigis, PhD

Marcia C. Haigis, PhD

(2023-2026)

Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Cyrus M. Ghajar, PhD

Cyrus M. Ghajar, PhD

(2021-2024)

Associate Professor
Public Health Sciences Division
Associate Professor, Human Biology Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

Florencia McAllister, MD

Florencia McAllister, MD

(2021-2024)

Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Sandra S. McAllister, PhD

Sandra S. McAllister, PhD

(2023-2026)

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Scientist, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Member, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Associate Member, Broad Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

Erik Sahai, PhD, FMedSci

Erik Sahai, PhD, FMedSci

(2022-2025)

Principal Group Leader and Assistant Research Director
The Francis Crick Institute
London, United Kingdom

Mara H. Sherman, PhD

Mara H. Sherman, PhD

(2022-2025)

Lab Head
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York