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Scientific Advisory and Review Boards

We carefully select our projects, vetting applications to make sure that our funding supports the most substantive and critical contributions to the field of childhood cancer research. Proposals are evaluated and rated by our scientific review board or nursing review board and approved by our board of directors. We look for projects that are likely to play a part in bringing the latest and most promising lifesaving treatments to seriously ill children. Specific guidelines are provided for each type of grant.

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)

Garrett M. Brodeur, MD

Associate Director, Abramson Cancer Center Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania/Perelman School of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Childhood Cancer Research
Audrey E. Evans Chair in Molecular Oncology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Todd E. Druley, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Developmental Biology and Genetics
Director, Pediatric Cancer Predisposition Program
Director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program

Washington University in St. Louis

Nada Jabado, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, McGill University

Stephen L. Lessnick, MD, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics, and Elizabeth M. & Richard M. Ross Endowed Chair in Pediatric Research
Director, Center for Childhood Cancer & Blood Disorders at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

John M. Maris, MD

Giulio D'Angio Endowed Professor of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania/Perelman School of Medicine

 

Katherine K. Matthay, MD

Director Pediatric Oncology, Professor of Pediatrics, Mildred V. Strouss Endowed Chair in Translational Research in Pediatric Oncology at UCSF School of Medicine

Maureen M. O’Brien, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati and Medical Director of the Leukemia/Lymphoma Program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Donald W. (Will) Parsons, MD, PhD

Co-Director Neuro-Oncology Program, Director Pediatric Center for Personal Cancer Genomics & Therapeutics at Texas Children’s Cancer Center and Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine

David G. Poplack, MD

Director, Texas Children’s Cancer Center and Elise C. Young Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Head, Hematology-Oncology Section, Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine

Robert J. Arceci, MD, PhD -- Advisor and Founding Member, Scientific Advisory Board

Bob was integral to our grants program from its inception in 2005 onward. As the Division Chief, Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Hematology/Oncology and Director of the Ron Matricaria Institute of Molecular Medicine At Phoenix Children’s Hospital, he made countless contributions to help children with cancer and transform the pediatric cancer landscape. We will always remember Bob's brilliance, compassion and authority, his great laugh and his incomparable sense of humor. He is greatly missed.

Scientific Review Board (SRB)

Nabil Ahmed

Baylor College of Medicine

James Amatruda

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Richard Aplenc

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Greg Armstrong

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Shahab Asgarzadeh

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

Frank Balis

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Oren Becher

Northwestern University School of Medicine

Jeffrey Bednarski

Washington University

Jason Berman

IWK Health Center/Dalhousie University

Catherine Bollard

Children’s Research Institute

Patrick Brown

Johns Hopkins University, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center 

Michael Burke

Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Alan Cantor

Boston Children’s Hospital

William Carroll

New York University School of Medicine

R. Craig Castellino

Emory University

Jae Cho

Doernbecher Children’s Hospital

Lionel Chow

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Kenneth Cohen

Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Susan Cohn

University of Chicago

Todd Cooper

Seattle Children's Hospital

Seth Corey

Virginia Commonwealth University

Timothy Cripe

Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Andrew Davidoff

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Deborah DeRyckere

Emory University

Lisa Diller

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Steve DuBois

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Ira Dunkel

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Michael Dyer

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Charles Eberhart

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Noah Federman

University of California Los Angeles

Nicholas Foreman

University of Colorado Denver

Elizabeth Fox

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Lindsay Frazier

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Alan Friedman

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Amar Gajjar

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Rani George

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Julia Glade-Bender

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Richard Gorlick

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Stephen Gottschalk

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Patrick Grohar

Van Andel Research Institute

W. Clay Gustafson

University of California-San Francisco

David Gutmann

Washington University

Dale Haines

Temple University School of Medicine

Helen Heslop

Baylor College of Medicine

Michael Hogarty

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Marshall Horwitz

University of Washington, Seattle

Stephen Hunger

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Myron Ignatius

UT Health, San Antonio

Meredith Irwin

Hospital for Sick Children

Paul Jedlicka

University of Colorado, Denver

Theodore Johnson

Augusta University, Georgia Cancer Center

Kimberly Johnson

Washington University

David Kaplan

Hospital for Sick Children

Charles Keller

Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute

Michael Kelly

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Anna Kenney

Emory University

Javed Khan

National Cancer Institute

Mark Kieran

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Andy Kolb

Nemours Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children

Andrew Kung

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Gary Kupfer

Yale School of Medicine

David Langenau

Massachusetts General Hospital

Beth Lawlor

University of Michigan

Glen Lew

Emory University

Corinne Linardic

Duke University

Mignon Loh

University of California San Francisco

Tobey MacDonald

Emory University

Crystal Mackall

Stanford University

Ravindra Majeti

Stanford Medicine

David Malkin

Hospital for Sick Children

Kelly Maloney

Children's Hospital Denver

Soheil Meshinchi

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Duane A. Mitchell

University of Florida

Michelle Monje

Stanford Medicine

Ann Moormann

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Sabine Mueller

University of California San Francisco

Charles Mullighan

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 

Kathleen Neville

Arkansas Children's Hospital

Maureen O'Brien

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Fatih Okcu

Baylor College of Medicine

Andy Olshan

University of North Carolina

Manuela Orjuela

Columbia University Medical Center

Eirini Pappapetrou

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Julie Park

Seattle Children's Hospital

Sharon Plon

Baylor College of Medicine

Christopher Porter

University of Colorado Denver

Jenny Poynter

University of Minnesota

Michael Pulsipher

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

Elizabeth Raetz

University of Utah

Damon Reed

Moffitt Cancer Center

Linda Resar

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

C. Patrick Reynolds

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Miguel Rivera

Massachusetts General Hospital

Charlie Roberts

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Josh Rubin

Washington University

Kathleen Sakamoto

Stanford University

Stephen Sallan

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Joshua Schiffman

Huntsman Cancer Institute

Nina Schor

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Reuven Schore

Children’s National Health System

Robert Seeger

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

Jason Shohet

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Lewis Silverman

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Frank Smith

Medpace, Inc.

Logan Spector

University of Minnesota

Sarah Tasian

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Jeffrey Toretsky

Georgetown University

Michael Verneris

University of Minnesota

Terry Vik

Indiana University School of Medicine

Roland Walter

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Alan Wayne

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Daniel Wechsler

Emory University

Robert Wechsler-Reya

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

Brenda Weigel

University of Minnesota

William Weiss

University of California San Francisco

Cynthia Wetmore

Phoenix Children’s Hospital

Joseph Wiemels

University of California-San Francisco

David Wilson

Washington University

Naomi Winick

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Brent Wood

University of Washington, Seattle

Darrell Yamashiro

Columbia University

Leonard Zon

Boston Children’s Hospital

Quality of Life and Care Advisory Board

Tina Baggott

University of California San Francisco

Wendy Hobbie

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Marilyn Hockenberry

Duke University School of Nursing

Matthew Hocking

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Mary Jo Kupst

Medical College of Wisconsin

Ki Moore

University of Arizona

Sue Ogle

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Sheila Santacroce

University of North Carolina

Ellen Tracy

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Quality of Life and Care Review Board

Robert Annett

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Leanne Embry

UT Health, San Antonio

Bernard Fuemmeler

Duke University School of Medicine

Cynthia Gerhardt

Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Pamela Hinds

Children’s National Health System

Mary Catherine (Casey) Hooke

University of Minnesota

Katherine Patterson Kelly

Children's Research Institute, Children's National 

Robert Noll

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Sean Phipps

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Kathy Ruble

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Olle Jane Sahler

University of Rochester Medical Center

Marilyn Stern

University of South Florida

Kathryn Vannatta

Nationwide Children’s Hospital

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