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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

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

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

Benjamin P. Tu, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor UT Southwestern Presidential Scholar
Martha Steiner Professorship in Medical Research W. W. Caruth, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research
Department of Biochemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas