Aging And Cancer: Stress And Other Risk Factors Task Force
The Aging and Cancer: Stress and Other Risk Factors Task Force is dedicated to understanding the extrinsic and intrinsic effectors of aging, including stress (e.g., obesity and chronobiology disturbances, social and economic stress, cellular stress, etc.), and their links to cancer. The mission of this group is to provide a platform by which to convene experts in the field to opine on the correlative features versus causative drivers of aging, with an overarching goal of preventing, intercepting, and treating cancer.
David A. Tuveson, MD, PhD, FAACR
(2025-2026)Director and Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, New York
Electra D. Paskett, PhD, MPH, FAACR
(2025-2026)Marion N. Rowley Professor of Cancer Research
Director, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Department of Internal Medicine
Distinguished Professor, College of Medicine
Professor, Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health
Deputy Director for Population Sciences and Community Outreach
Founding Director, Center for Cancer Health Equity
James Cancer Hospital
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Sheila A. Stewart, PhD
(2025-2026)Gerty Cori Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Director for Basic Sciences, Siteman Cancer Center
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD
(2025-2027)Professor, Departments of Cell Biology, Oncology (Medical Oncology), and Medicine (Oncology and Hematology)
Rose C. Falkenstein Chair in Cancer Research
Director, Institute for Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment
Co-Leader, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, New York
Adriana Albini, PhD
(2025-2026)Scientific Collaborator of Scientific Directorate
IRCCS European Institute of Oncology
Milan, Italy
Corina Amor Vegas, MD, PhD
(2025-2027)Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Program Co-Leader
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, New York
Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD, FAACR
(2025-2027)Saul J. Farber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Executive Vice President and Vice Dean for Science
Chief Scientific Officer
NYU Langone Medical Center
New York, New York
Alberto Bardelli, PhD
(2025-2027)Full Professor, University of Turin
Director, IFOM Genomics of Cancer and Targeted Therapies Program
Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment
Candiolo, Italy
Alexandra M. Binder, ScD
(2025-2027)Associate Professor and Full Member
Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology)
University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center
Honolulu, Hawaii
Kira Bona, MD, MPH
(2025-2027)Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Attending Physician, Hematology and Oncology
Boston Children’s Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, FAACR
(2025-2026)Professor of Cell Biology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
Judith E. Carroll, PhD
(2025-2027)Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Andrew E. Chapman, DO
(2025-2027)Professor, Enterprise Vice President of Oncology Services
Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Co-Director, Jefferson Health Senior Adult Oncology Center
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Harvey Jay Cohen, Sr., MD
(2025-2027)Professor of Medicine
Walter Kempner Distinguished Professor of Medicine, in the School of Medicine
Emeritus Director, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI’s Center for Population Health and Aging
Duke Cancer Institute
Durham, North Carolina
Alan D. D’Andrea, MD, FAACR
(2025-2026)Director, Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers
Director, Center for DNA Damage and Repair
Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
James V. DeGregori, PhD
(2025-2026)Courtenay C. and Lucy Patten Davis Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado
Hariharan P. Easwaran, PhD, MSc
(2025-2027)Associate Professor of Oncology
Sydney Kimmel Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Mikala Egeblad, PhD
(2025-2027)Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Tumor Microenvironment
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Professor of Cell Biology
Professor of Oncology
Co-Leader, Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Program
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baltimore, Maryland
Martine Extermann, MD, PhD
(2025-2027)Professor of Oncology and Medicine
University of South Florida
Program Leader, Senior Adult Oncology Program
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida
Lucy A. Godley, MD, PhD
(2025-2027)Jeffrey and Marianne Silver Family Professor of Oncology
Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Ana P. Gomes, PhD
(2025-2027)Principal Investigator
Associate Member
Department of Molecular Oncology
Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida
Marcia Haigis, PhD
(2025-2026)Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Curtis J. Henry, PhD
(2025-2027)Deputy Associate Director of Faculty and Staff Relations, The University of Colorado Cancer Center
The David F. and Margaret Turley Grohne Endowed Chair in Translational Cancer Research
Associate Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado
Melissa M. Hudson, MD
(2025-2026)Director, Cancer Survivorship Division
Associate Director, Population Sciences
The Charles E. Williams Endowed Chair of Oncology-Cancer Survivorship
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee
Adana A.M. Llanos, PhD, MPH
(2025-2027)Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Co-Leader, Cancer Population Science
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, New York
Scott W. Lowe, PhD, FAACR
(2025-2026)Chair, Cancer Biology and Genetics Program
Chair, Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute
New York, New York
Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, MD, MPH
(2025-2027)Founder, Georgetown Lombardi Institute for Cancer and Aging Research
Professor of Oncology
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
Sandra S. McAllister, PhD
(2025-2027)Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Scientist, Brigham And Women’s Hospital
Member, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Associate Member, Broad Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
Anna Karolina Palucka, MD, PhD
(2025-2026)Professor and Director, Jax Cancer Center
Edison T. Liu Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
The Jackson Laboratory
Farmingham, Connecticut
Mina S. Sedrak, MD, MS
(2025-2027)Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Cancer and Aging Program
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Victoria L. Seewaldt, MD
(2025-2027)Ruth Ziegler Chair in Population Sciences
City of Hope
Duarte, California
Cornelia M. Ulrich, MS, PhD
(2025-2026)Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Director
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Jon M. and Karen Huntsman Presidential Professor in Cancer Research
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Matthew G. Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
(2025-2027)Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Lester Wolfe (1919) Professor of Molecular Biology
Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Zhaoming Wang, PhD, MSc
(2025-2027)Professor in Bioinformatics
Morsani College of Medicine/Health Informatics Institute
Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
Ashani T. Weeraratna, PhD
(2025-2026)E.V. McCollum Chair and Bloomberg
Distinguished Professor of Cancer Biology
Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Baltimore, Maryland
E. John Wherry III, PhD, FAACR
(2025-2026)Director, Institute for Immunology
Professor, Department of Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Robert A. Winn, MD, FAACR
(2025-2026)Director and Lipman Chair in Oncology
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
Senior Associate Dean for Cancer Innovation
Professor of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
Richmond, Virginia