MEET OUR FUNDED INVESTIGATORS

SWCRF Institute Without Walls - 2022-2024

Albert S. Baldwin, Jr., Ph.D. 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Distinguished Professor, Lineberger Cancer Center

Nabeel Bardeesy, Ph.D.

Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor, MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

Stephen Baylin MD

Stephen Baylin, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Professor for Cancer Research Professor of Oncology and Medicine

Robert Casero, Jr., Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Program

Sai-Juan Chen

Sai-Juan Chen, M.D.

Shanghai Institute of Hematology

Director of National Center for Translational Medicine

John Crispino, Ph.D., MBA

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Division of Experimental Hematology

Jayanta Debnath, M.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Professor and Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

 

Ethan Dmitrovsky, M.D.

Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

Laboratory Director

President, Leidos Biomedical Research

Hariharan Easwaran, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University

Laboratory Director

Assistant Professor of Oncology

 

Maria Figueroa MD

Maria E. Figueroa, M.D.

University of Miami Health Systems

Associate Professor
Co-Leader, Cancer Epigenetics Research Program

 

Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D.

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Professor and Director, Gene Expression Laboratory

 

Christopher French, MD

Christopher French, M.D.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Associate Professor of Pathology

 

Shai Izraeli, M.D.

Tel Aviv University Medical School Hematology-Oncology Department

Professor and Director

Yongkui Jing, Ph.D.

Shenyang Pharmaceutical University

Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Jonathan D. Licht, M.D.

The University of Florida Health

Director, The University of Florida Health Cancer Center

Josep Llovet, M.D.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Founder and Director, Liver Cancer Program

Professor of Medicine and Liver Diseases

Alexander MacKerell, PhD

Alexander MacKerell, Ph.D.

University of Maryland
Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Ari Melnick, M.D.

Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University

Director, Sackler Center for Biomedical and Physical Sciences

Professor of Hematology/Oncology

Wilson Miller, M.D., Ph.D.

Jewish General Hospital

Director of Laboratory Research, Division of Hematology-Oncology

Joel Neilson, Ph.D.


Baylor College of Medicine

Associate Professor
Molecular Physiology

Gilbert Privé, Ph.D.

University of California

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Senior Scientist

Professor of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

 

Ruibao Ren, M.D., Ph.D.

Shanghai Institute of Hematology

Director

 

Kevan Shokat, Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Professor and Chair

Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology 

Samuel Waxman MD

Samuel Waxman, M.D.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Distinguished Service Professor

Mary Stack, Ph.D.

Research Institute, University of Notre Dame

Professor and Director, Harper Cancer

Robert Weinberg, Ph.D.


Professor for Cancer Research

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Professor, Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Nuerological Surgery

Cynthia Zahnow, PhD
Cynthia Zahnow, Ph.D., MS
 

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Associate Professor of Oncology

 

 

Gladstein Family Bladder Cancer Research Program - 2022-2024

Philip Beachy, Ph.D.

Stanford University School of Medicine

Professor, School of Medicine, Professor of Urology and Developmental Biology

Jonathan Rosenberg, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Chief, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Service, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology; Enno W. Ercklentz Chair

Gerald L. Lennard Foundation Inc. Women's Cancer Research Program

Doris Germain, Ph.D.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology

 

Partnership for Aging and Cancer Research in Collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Aging - 2022-2024

Lewis Cantley, Ph.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Harvard Medical School

Professor of Cell Biology

 

Carl June, M.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies

Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

Ji Luo, Ph.D.

Nan-ping Weng, M.D., Ph.D.

National Institute on Aging

Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology

SWCRF Mark Foundation for Cancer Research

Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, Ph.D.
 

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Professor, Department of Oncology
Professor, Department of Medicine

Director, Institute for Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment

Ross Levine, M.D.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Chair in Leukemia Research

Chief, Molecular Cancer Medicine Service

Sandra McAllister, Ph.D.
 

Harvard Medical School

Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D.
 

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Ashani T. Weeraratna, Ph.D.
 

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Arjun Raj, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Professor of Bioengineering

Professor of Genetics

Rachel A. Freedman, M.D., M.P.H.
 

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

SWCRF Partnership with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Monteflore Einstein Cancer Center (2023-2025)

Rachel Hazan, Ph.D.
 

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Gaetano Santulli, M.D., Ph.D.
 

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

SWCRF and Israel Cancer Research Fund Collaboration on Aging and Cancer (2023-2025)

Charles Brenner, Ph.D.

City of Hope National Medical Center

Haim Cohen, Ph.D.

Bar-Ilan University

Fuad Iraqi, Ph.D.

Tel Aviv University

Raul Mostoslavsky, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

SWCRF Collaboration with the Alan B. Slifka Foundation and the Israel Cancer Research Fund on Pediatric Sarcomas

Benjamin Dekel, M.D., Ph.D.

School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Chief, Pediatric Nephrology

Director, Pediatric Stem Cell Research Institute

Edmond & Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center

Xiaoyang Wu, Ph.D.

Chicago University

Associate Professor of Ben May Department of Cancer Research

2022 David Workman Memorial Award

Judith Campisi, Ph.D.

Bucks Institute