Steering Committee

Keith Flaherty, MD, FAACR
Steering Committee Chair
AACR President 2026–2027
Director of Clinical Research
Richard Saltonstall Endowed Chair in Oncology
Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Katherine M. Aird, PhD
Professor and Co-Leader
Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program
The Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Vinod P. Balachandran, MD
Founding Director, The Olayan Center for Cancer Vaccines
Associate Member & Laboratory Head, Immuno-Oncology Service,
Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Associate Attending Surgeon, Division of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery
Member Researcher, David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic
Cancer Research
Hutham S. Olayan and Robert F. Raucci Chair
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

Catherine Bollard, MBChB, MD
Senior Vice President & Chief Research Officer, Children’s National
Dr. Robert J. and Florence T. Bosworth Distinguished Professor
of Cancer and Transplantation Biology Research
Director, Center for Cancer and Immunology Research
Professor of Pediatrics and of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine
Children’s National Hospital
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Washington, DC

Mark Dawson, FAA, FAHMS, MBBS (Hons), BMedSci, FRACP, FRCPA, PhD (Cantab)
Professor, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology & Centre for Cancer Research
University of Melbourne
Associate Director for Research Translation
Consultant Haematologist (RMH/PMCC)
Head, Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Melbourne, Australia

James DeGregori, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Courtenay C. and Lucy Patten Davis Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research
Interim Director, University of Colorado Cancer Center
University of Colorado Anschutz
Aurora, Colorado

Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery
John Rhea Barton Professor of Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)
Chief Executive Officer
American Association for Cancer Research®
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Benjamin Haibe-Kains, PhD
Executive AI Scientific Director, University Health Network
Scientific Director, AI Hub and Cancer Digital Intelligence
Data Science, Structural Genomics Consortium
Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Professor, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Susan Hong, MD, MPH
RGC Professor Cancer Research
Director, Cancer Survivorship
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
Richmond, Virginia

Quynh-Thu Le, MD, FACR, FASTRO
Katharine Dexter McCormick & Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor and Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Lauren E. McCullough, PhD MSPH
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Senior Scientific Director, Epidemiology Research
American Cancer Society
Atlanta, Georgia

David L. Rimm, MD, PhD
Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology
Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
Director, Quantitative Diagnostics in Anatomic Pathology (QDAP) Lab
Director, Yale Pathology Tissue Services
Director, Physician Scientist Training Program in Pathology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Peter Sasieni, CBE, PhD, FMedSci
Co-Lead, Centre for Cancer Screening, Prevention & Early Diagnosis
Director, Cancer Research UK Cancer Prevention Trials Unit at QMUL
Wolfson Institute of Population Health
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
Queen Mary University of London
London, United Kingdom

Peter Sorger, PhD
Otto Krayer Professor
Department of Systems Biology
Head of the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Sciences (HiTS)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Sunil Verma, MD
SVP, Global Head, Oncology Franchise
AstraZeneca
Gaithersburg, Maryland

E. John Wherry, PhD
Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics
Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President’s Distinguished Professor
Director, Institute for Immunology and Immune Health
Director of the Colton Consortium
Co-Program Leader, Immunobiology Program, Abramson Cancer Center
Co-Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania