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Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award

Selection Committee

CHAIR

Mignon Loh, MD
Division Chief, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Bone Marrow Transplant, and Cellular Therapies
Seattle Children's Hospital
Director, Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research
Seattle Children's Research Institute
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington
Head, Pediatric Oncology Section
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

VICE CHAIR

Katerina Politi, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Pathology and Medicine (Section of Medical Oncology)
Scientific Director, Center for Thoracic Cancers
Co-Leader, Cancer Signaling Networks Research Program
Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD
Senior Vice President for Drug Discovery and Chief Research Strategy Officer
President, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Chairman
Department of Pediatric Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts

J. Robert Beck, MD
Professor Emeritus
H.O. West and J.R. Wike Chair in Cancer Research
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ralph J. DeBerardinis, MD, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Children's Research Institute
Chief, Division of Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism
Director, Genetic and Metabolic Disease Program
Robert L. Moody, Sr. Faculty Scholar
Joel B. Steinberg, MD Chair in Pediatrics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 
Dallas, Texas

Howard A. Fine, MD
Director, Weill Cornell Brain Tumor Center
Associate Director, Translational Research Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

Dan Laheru, MD
Professor of Oncology
Ian T. MacMillan Professorship in Clinical Pancreatic Cancer Research
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Ross L. Levine, MD
Senior Vice President
Translational Research Memorial Hospital
Laurence Joseph Dineen Chair in Leukemia Research
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Daniel C. Link, MD
Alan and Edith Wolf Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Oncology Deputy Director, Siteman Cancer Center
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

Ann Partridge, MD, MPH
Vice Chair of Medical Oncology
Director, Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer
Director, Adult Survivorship Program
Eric P. Winder, MD, Chair in Breast Cancer Research
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Brookline, Massachusetts

Vered Stearns, MD, FASCO
Director for Translational Breast Cancer Research
Hematology and Medical Oncology
Associate Director for Clinical Services
Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York