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Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award

Selection Committee

CHAIR

Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Director, Cancer Biology Division
Department of Radiation Oncology
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri

Laura D. Attardi, PhD, FAACR
Catharine and Howard Avery Professor of the School of Medicine
Departments of Radiation Oncology and Genetics
Co-Director, Cancer Biology Program
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Christin E. Burd, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Eric S. Fischer, PhD
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Joseph Deitch Family Chair at Dana-Farber and Director, Chemical Biology Program 
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

Obi L. Griffith, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology
Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri

Peter P. Lee, MD
Billy Wilder Endowed Professor
Chair, Department of Immuno-Oncology
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Duarte, California

Hening Lin, PhD
HHMI Investigator
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

David S. Pellman, MD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Stephen T. Smale, PhD
Vice Dean for Research
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Distinguished Professor
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Sherie L. and Donald G. Morrison Chair, Molecular Immunology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California