Program in Oncology Leadership

Senior Leadership 

• Taofeek Kunle Owonikoko, MD, PhD, Executive Director
• Stuart S. Martin, PhD, Deputy Director
• France Carrier, PhD, Associate Director of Basic Science
• Cheryl L. Knott, PhD, Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement
• Shana O. Ntiri, MD, MPH, Assistant Director, Community Outreach and Engagement
• Clement Adebamowo, BM, ChB, FACS, FWACS, ScD, Associate Director for Population Science
• Ranee Mehra, MD, Associate Director, Clinical Research
• Robert Villanueva, Director, Clinical Research Management Office
• Mark V. Mishra, MD, Associate Director, Cancer Network
• Toni M Antalis, PhD, Associate Director, Cancer Research Training & Education Coordination (CRTEC)
• Bret A. Hassel, PhD, Assistant Director, CRTEC
• Nicholas Ambulos, Jr, PhD, Associate Director, Shared Resources
• Rena S. Lapidus, PhD, Assistant Director, Shared Resources
• Elana J. Fertig, PhD, Associate Director for Quantitative Sciences
• Robert F Mitchell, BS, Associate Director, Administration
• Sarah Laye, Assistant Director, Administration
• Stanley Whitbey, Vice President for Clinical Services
• Yixing Jiang, BM, PhD, Chair, Data Safety and Monitoring​ (DSM)
• Suzanne Cignatta, Finance Director

Research Program Leadership

Cancer Biology (CB)

• Min Yu, PhD, Program Co-Leader
• Scott E. Devine, PhD, Program Co-Leader

Cancer Therapeutics (CT)

• Maria R Baer, MD, Program Co-Leader
• Arif Hussain, MD, Program Co-Leader
• Feyruz V Rassool, PhD, Program Co-Leader

Population Science (PS)

• Sally N. Adebamowo, MBBS, MSc, ScD, Program Co-Leader
• Melanie E. Bennett, PhD, Program Co-Leader

Tumor Immunology and Immunoengineering (TII)

• Xuefang Cao, PhD, Program Co-Leader
• Lishan Su, PhD, Program Co-Leader

Shared Resources Leadership

Biostatistics Shared Resource

• Curtis Tatsuoka, PhD, Director

Flow Cytometry Shared Resource

• Xiaoxuan Fan, PhD, Co-Director
• Marcelo B. Sztein, MD, Co-Director

Genomics Shared Resource

• Nicholas Ambulos, PhD, Director
• Luke J. Tallon, Co-Director

Imaging Shared Resource

• Thomas Blanpied, PhD, Director
• Christine Brantner, PhD, Director
• Jiachen Zhuo, PhD, Director

Pathology and Biorepository Shared Resource

• Amy Plotkin, MD, PhD, Co-Director
• Olga Ioffe, MD, Co-Director

Structural Biology Shared Resource

• David J Weber, PhD, Co-Director
• Kristen Varney, PhD, Co-Director

Translational Laboratory Shared Resource

• Rena Lapidus, PhD, Director
• Katharina Richard, PhD, Assistant Director, In Vivo Service

Translational Working Group

• Bolni M. Nagalo, MSc, PhD, Co-Director
• David J Weber, PhD, Co-Director
• Arif Hussain, MD, Co-Director
• France Carrier, PhD, Co-Director
• Rena Lapidus, PhD, Program Manager