Board of Directors Scientific Advisory Panel Debra Black, Chair; Co-Founder, MRA; Christopher Austin, M.D., Senior Advisor for Broadway Producer; Melanoma Survivor Translational Research, National Institutes of Leon Black, Co-Founder, MRA; Board Member, Health FasterCures; Founding Partner, CEO and Chair, Paul Billings, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer, Apollo Management LP Life Technologies Maria Bell, Head Writer & Co-Executive Gideon Bollag, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Producer, The Young & the Restless Research, Plexxikon, Inc. Jason Federici, Art Director, Graphic Designer, Photographer Lynda Chin, M.D., Professor and Chair, Jami Gertz, TV and Film Actress Department of Genomic Medicine; Scientific Susan Hess, Vice Chairman, Whitney Museum Director, Institute for Applied Cancer Science, Michael Klowden, President and CEO, Milken University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Institute Center Connie Mack, Senior Policy Advisor, Liberty Richard Gaynor, M.D., Vice President, Partners Group LLC; Former U.S. Senator Oncology, Product Development and Medical Nancy Marks, Artist Affairs, Eli Lilly Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute; Founder and Chairman, FasterCures; Founder Donald Morton, M.D. Chief, Melanoma and Chairman, Prostate Cancer Foundation Program, Director, Surgical Oncology Richard Ressler, Founder, Orchard Capital Fellowship Program, John Wayne Cancer Corporation and CIM Group Institute Jeff Rowbottom, Managing Director & Co-head Neal Rosen, M.D., Ph.D., Enid A. Haupt Chair in of North America Capital Markets, KKR Medical Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Gregory C. Simon Cancer Center Jonathan W. Simons, M.D., President and CEO, David H. Koch Chair, Prostate Cancer Steven Rosenberg, M.D., Chief, Surgery Branch Foundation; Professor, Biomedical Engineering National Cancer Institute and Material Sciences, Georgia Institute of Joshua Sharfstein, M.D., State of Maryland, Technology, NCI Center of Cancer Secretary of Health & Mental Hygiene, Office of Nanotechnology Excellence Secretary, Department of Health & Mental Jonathan Sokoloff, Managing Partner, Leonard Hygiene Green & Partners, LP Suzanne Topalian, M.D., Professor of Surgery Elizabeth Stanton, President, Oliver and Elizabeth Stanton Foundation and Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Margaret Anderson, Secretary; Executive Director, Melanoma Program, Sidney Kimmel Director, FasterCures Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Kamyab Hashemi-Nejad, Treasurer; Director of University Finance, Milken Institute Wendy K.D. Selig, MRA President and CEO Wendy K. D. Selig, President and CEO, MRA
Grant Review Committee Thomas Gajewski, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Glenn Dranoff, M.D., – Chair, Director, Human Professor, Departments of Pathology and Gene Transfer Laboratory Core, Dana-Farber Medicine, University of Chicago; Director, Cancer Institute Immunology and Cancer Program, University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center David Solit, M.D. – Co-Chair, Assistant Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program; Allan Halpern, M.D., Chief, Dermatology Service, Elizabeth and Felix Rohatyn Chair for Junior Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Faculty, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Meenhard Herlyn, D.V.M, D.Sc., Professor and James Allison, Ph.D., Chair of Immunology Program Leader, Molecular and Cellular Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Oncogenesis Program, The Wistar Institute Center; Director of Ludwig Center for Cancer, Thomas Hornyak, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Immunotherapy; Investigator, Howard Hughes Dermatology, VA Maryland Health Care System; Medical Center Associate Professor of Dermatology and Boris Bastian, M.D., Clinical Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University Department Dermatology, University of of Maryland School of Medicine California, San Francisco Michal Lotem, M.D., Sharret Institute of Marcus Bosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Yale Richard Marais, Ph.D., Director, Paterson School of Medicine Institute for Cancer Research Steven Burakoff, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Kim Margolin, M.D., Physician, University of Hematology and Medical Oncology; Professor, Washington/Seattle Cancer Center Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Martin McMahon, Ph.D., Professor-In-Residence, Medicine University of California, San Francisco Jonathan Cebon, MBBS, FRACP., Ph.D., Director, Glenn Merlino, Ph.D., Chief, Laboratory of Cancer Medical Oncology Austin Health; Head Cancer Biology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Vaccine Laboratory, Ludwig Institute for Cancer NIH Research, Melbourne; Professor of Medicine, Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Melbourne University of California, Los Angeles Paul Chapman, M.D., Attending Physician, Stan Riddell, M.D., Member, Department of Melanoma/Sarcoma service, Memorial Sloan- Immunology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Kettering Cancer Center; Professor of Medicine, Center Weill Medical College of Cornell University Caroline Robert, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Tanja de Gruijl, Ph.D., Associate Professor, VU Dermatology, Head of the Dermatology Unit, University Medical Center Institute Gustave Roussy Charles Drake, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Lynn Schucter, M.D., C. Willard Robinson Oncology, Immunology and Urology; Director - Professor of Hematology-Oncology; Attending Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Clinic, Johns Physician, Hospital of the University of Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Pennsylvania; Program Leader: Melanoma Center Program, Abramson Cancer Center of the Levi Garraway, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of University of Pennsylvania; Division Chief, Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Associate Hematology-Oncology, University of Member, Broad Institute Pennsylvania
Grant Review Committee Jonathan Simons, M.D., CEO and President, David H. Koch Chair, Prostate Cancer Foundation Howard Soule, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Discovery and Translation, Prostate Cancer Foundation Suzanne Topalian, M.D., MRA Chief Science Officer, Professor of Surgery and Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Director, Melanoma Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Michael Weber, Ph.D., Director, Cancer Center, Weaver Professor of Oncology, University of Virginia
Medical Advisory Panel Paul Chapman, M.D. – Chair, Attending Kim Margolin, M.D., Professor, Department of Physician, Melanoma/Sarcoma Service, Medicine, University of Washington/Seattle Cancer Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Center Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Cornell University University of California Los Angeles David Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Department of Lynn Schuchter, M.D., C. Willard Robinson Dermatology, Director, Melanoma Program, Professor of Hematology-Oncology; Attending MGH Cancer Center Director, Cutaneous Biology Physician, Hospital of the University of Research Center, Massachusetts General Pennsylvania; Program Leader: Melanoma Hospital; Edward Wigglesworth Professor of Program, Abramson Cancer Center of the Dermatology, Harvard Medical School University of Pennsylvania; Division Chief, Thomas Gajewski, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Hematology-Oncology, University of Pennsylvania Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Suzanne Topalian, M.D., MRA Chief Science Officer; University of Chicago Professor of Surgery and Oncology, Johns Hopkins Jeffrey Gershenwald, M.D., Professor, University Medicine; Director, Melanoma Program, Sidney of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center F. Stephen Hodi, M.D., Assistant Professor, Jedd Wolchok, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center School; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dana- Farber Cancer Institute Updated: September 2012 Roger Lo, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Melanoma Clinic in Dermatology, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Dermatology, University of California Los Angeles
Patricia LoRusso, D.O., Professor of Medicine, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute