Grant Review Committee

Jeffrey Gershenwald, MD

Chair

Medical Director, Melanoma and Skin
Center
Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology
The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center

Eva M. Hernando-Monge, PhD

Co-Chair

Associate Director, Basic Research
Program Leader, Cancer Cell Biology &
Signaling, NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
Thomas Jefferson University

Ana C. Anderson, PhD

Immediate Past-Chair

Associate Professor, Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Susan Swetter, MD

Chair

Dermatology Career Development Award

Professor, Dermatology
Director, Pigmented Lesion & Melanoma
Program
Stanford University Medical Center &
Cancer Institute

Andrew Aplin, PhD

Deputy Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer
Center
The Kalbach-Newton Professor in Cancer
Research
Thomas Jefferson University

Joshua Arbesman, MD

Staff, Departments of Dermatology, Cancer
Biology, Hematology, and Medical Oncology
Director, Pigmented Lesion Clinic
Cleveland Clinic

Charlotte Ariyan, MD, PhD

Associate Staff, Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Tara Mitchell, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
(Hematology-Oncology)
University of Pennsylvania Hospital

Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD

AbbVie Foundation Professor of Pathology
Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago

Richard Granstein, MD

Chair of Dermatology
Weill Cornell Medical College

Michael D. Green, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan

Rizwan Haq, MD, PhD

Attending Physician, Medical Oncology,
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

J. William Harbour, MD

The David Bruton, Jr. Chair in
Ophthalmology
Department of Ophthalmology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Rebecca Hartman, MD, MPH

Chief of Dermatology, VA Boston Healthcare
System
Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital

Ping Chih-Ho, PhD

Professor, Department of Oncology
University of Lausanne

Caroline Robert, MD, PhD

Professor and Head, Dermatology Unit
Co-Director, Melanoma Research Unit
Institute Gustave Roussy

Yevgeniy Eugene Semenov, MD, MA

Assistant Professor, Dermatology
Harvard Medical School

Craig Slingluff, MD

Joseph Helms Farrow Professor, Surgery
Vice Chair, Research, Department of Surgery
Director, UVA Cancer Center Human
Immune Therapy Center
The University of Virginia

Keiran Smalley, PhD

Professor and Director of the Melanoma and
Skin Cancers
Moffitt Cancer Center

David Solit, MD

Geoffrey Beene Chair
Director, Marie-Josée & Henry R. Kravis
Center for Molecular Oncology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Michael Atkins, MD

Director, Georgetown Lombardi
Comprehensive Cancer Center
Scholl Professor, Department of Medical
Oncology
Co-Director, Melanoma Center at MedStar
Georgetown University Hospital

Boris Bastian, MD, PhD

Medical Director, Melanoma and Skin Center
Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology
The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center

Georgia Beasley, MD

Associate Professor, Surgery
Associate Professor, Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine

Emily Bernstein, PhD

Co-leader, Cancer Mechanisms Research
Program
The Tisch Cancer Institute
Professor, Oncological Sciences &
Dermatology
Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Allison Betof Warner, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology
Director, Melanoma Medical Oncology
Director, Solid Tumor Cellular Therapy
Co-Director, Pigmented Lesion and
Melanoma Program
Stanford Cancer Center

Kim Blenman, PhD

Staff, Departments of Dermatology, Cancer
Biology, Hematology, and Medical Oncology
Director, Pigmented Lesion Clinic
Cleveland Clinic

Taha Merghoub, MD

Co-Director, Ludwig Collaborative
Laboratory
Professor of Pharmacology, Pharmacology
Professor, Immunology Research in
Medicine
Professor, Research in Pharmacology,
Pharmacology
Weill Cornell Medical College

Thomas Hornyak, MD, PhD

Chief, Dermatology
VA Maryland Health Care System
Associate Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Siwen Hu-Lieskovan, MD, PhD

Director, Solid Tumor Immunotherapy
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of
Utah

Ben Izar, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Hematology/Oncology
Columbia University Herbert Irving
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Florian Karreth, PhD

Principal Investigator, Molecular Oncology
Moffitt Cancer Center

Roger Lo, MD, PhD

Director, Melanoma Clinic in Dermatology
Professor, Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles, David
Geffen School of Medicine

David Lombard, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center,
University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine

Michael C. Lowe, MD, MA

Associate Professor, Surgical Oncology
Emory University

Jennifer Wargo, MD, MMSc

Professor, Genomic Medicine
Professor, Surgical Oncology
The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center

Maria Wei, MD, PhD

Professor, Dermatology
Director, Dermatology Genetics/Familial
Cancers Clinic
Director, Melanoma Surveillance/Pigmented
Lesion Clinic
University of California, San Francisco

Xu Wu, PhD

Principal Investigator, Cutaneous Biology
Research Center, Massachusetts General
Hospital
Associate Professor, Dermatology, Harvard
Medical School
Affiliate Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Ryan Sullivan, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital

Iwei Yeh, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Dermatology and
Pathology
University of California, San Francisco

Marcus Bosenberg, MD, PhD

Past-Chair

Professor of Dermatology, Pathology, and
Immunobiology
Co-Leader, Genetics, Genomics and
Epigenetics
Yale Cancer Center

Genevieve Boland, MD, PhD

Vice Chair of Research, Department of Surgery
Director, Therapeutic Intralesional Program
Massachusetts General Hospital

Linda Bradley, PhD

Professor, Cancer Metabolism and
Microenvironment
Sanford Burnham Prebys

Tim Bullock, PhD

Professor, Pathology
University of Virginia

Diwakar Davar, MD

Associate Professor, Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Tanja de Gruijl, PhD

Professor, Medical Oncology Laboratory
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Stephanie Dougan, PhD

Associate Professor of Immunology, Harvard
Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

David Fisher, MD, PhD

Chief, Dermatology Service
Director, Melanoma Program, MGH Cancer
Center
Massachusetts General Hospital

Alexander Meves, MD, MBA

Professor, Dermatology
Consultant, Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology
Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center

Anna Pavlick, MD, MBA

Director, WCM Melanoma and Cutaneous
Oncology Program
Professor, Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

David Polsky, MD

Professor, Dermatology
Director, Pigmented Lesion & Melanoma
Program
New York University Langone Health

Poulikos Poulikakos, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of
Oncological Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Michael Postow, MD

Melanoma Oncologist and Associate
Attending Physician
Chief, Melanoma Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD

Past-Chair

Professor of Medicine, Surgery, Molecular
and Medical Pharmacology
Director, Tumor Immunology Program
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California Los Angeles

Hassane Zarour, MD

Professor, Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Janis Taube, MD, MSc

Director, Division of Dermatopathology
Professor of Dermatology
Johns Hopkins Medical Center

Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD

Clinical Director, MGH Melanoma&
Pigmented Lesion Center
Director, MGH Melanoma Genetics Program

Vinita Takiar, MD

Professor, Clinical Radiation Oncology
Vice Chair, Research Radiation Oncology
Cincinnati College of Medicine

Reid F. Thompson, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine
Oregon Health & Sciences University

Bin Zhang, MD, PhD

Professor of Cancer Immunology
Professor, Medicine (Hematology and
Oncology),
Professor, Microbiology-Immunology
Professor, Pathology
Northwestern University, Feinberg School
of Medicine