Leadership and Administration

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Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD is the Director of the Abramson Cancer Center after having served as a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the departments of Medicine, Cell Biology, Oncology, Pathology, and Molecular Biology & Genetics. He also served as Vice Dean for Research and Executive Director of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering. Dr. Dang serves as the Director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute.

Caryn Lerman PhD, is the Mary W. Calkins Professor, Psychiatry and the Annenberg School for Communication and Deputy Director of the Abramson Cancer Center.

The day-to-day activities of the staff of the Cancer Center are under the supervision of the Center's Chief of Staff, Joseph R. Carver, MD.

The Deputy Director of Clinical Services & Programs at the Abramson Cancer Center, Douglas L. Fraker, MD, serves as the senior advisor to the Center's Director and Health System's leadership on clinical services and associated programmatic initiatives.

The Abramson Cancer Center Associate General Counsel, Mehrin (Mir) Masud Elias, Esq, is the contact for all research related contracts and negotiations and for all other legal matters pertaining to the Center.

  Associate Directors of the Abramson Cancer Center

• James Alwine, PhD, who previously held program leader positions for 12 years, has served as Associate Director for Core Facilities for the past five years.

• Garrett Brodeur, MD is the Associate Director of Pediatric Cancer at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and also a Professor of Pediatrics.

• Lewis Chodosh, MD, PhD, is Professor of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and Professor and Chair of the Department of Cancer Biology. Dr. Chodosh is also the Medical Director of Cancer Genetics, and Program Leader of the Breast Cancer Research Program.

• Roger B. Cohen, MD is Associate Director for Clinical Research.

• Timothy Rebbeck, PhD is the Associate Director for Population Science and Professor of Epidemiology. Dr. Rebbeck also hold positions as Director of the Center for Genetics and Complex Traits and Director of the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities.

• Robert Vonderheide, MD, D.Phil is the Associate Director for Translational Research.

• Robert Wynne is the Associate Director for Financial and Administrative Affairs.

Abramson Cancer Center Director's Leadership Council

The Abramson Cancer Center Director's Leadership Council (ACCDLC) advises and supports the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania leadership in programmatic direction, community interactions, long-range finance and development strategies, outreach, and public relations. The Honorary Chair, Madlyn Abramson, and her family have committed $100 million to support cancer research and patient care. View the other members of the ACCDLC.

Program Leaders

Steven Albelda, MD
Tobacco and Environmental Carcinogenesis Research Program

Frank Balis, MD
Pediatric Oncology Research Program

Katherine Nathanson, MD
Cancer Control Research Program

Lewis Chodosh, MD, PhD
Breast Cancer Research Program

Angela DeMichele, MD, MSCE
Breast Cancer Research Program

Stephen Hahn, MD
Radiobiology and Imaging Research Program

Gary Koretzky, MD, PhD
Immunobiology Research Program

Constantinos Koumenis, PhD
Radiobiology and Imaging Research Program

Corey Langer, MD
Cancer Therapeutics Research Program

William Lee, MD, PhD
Tumor Biology Research Program

John Maris, MD
Pediatric Oncology Research Program

Peter O'Dwyer, MD
Cancer Therapeutics Research Program

Trevor Penning, PhD
Tobacco and Environmental Carcinogenesis Research Program

Erle Robertson, PhD
Tumor Virology Research Program

Anil Rustgi, MD
Tumor Biology Research Program

Marilyn Schapira, MD, MPH
Cancer Control Research Program

Lynn Schuchter, MD
Melanoma and Cutaneous Malignancies Research Program

Nancy Speck, PhD
Hematologic Malignancies Research Program

Edward Stadtmauer, MD
Hematologic Malignancies Research Program

Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil
Immunobiology Research Program

David Weiner, PhD
Cancer Therapeutics Research Program

Shared Resource/Core Facilities Directors

Ian Blair, PhD
Proteomics Core

Nancy Cooke, MD
Transgenic and Chimeric Mouse Facility

Tapan Ganguly, PhD
DNA Sequencing Facility

Daniel Heitjan, PhD
Biostatistics Unit

Eline Luning-Prak, PhD
Human Immunology Core

J. Richard Landis
Biomedical Data Coordination Core

Bruce Levine, PhD
Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility

Stephen Liebhaber, MD
Transgenic and Chimeric Mouse Facility

Jonni Moore, PhD
Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Facility

Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH
Recruitment, Outcomes, and Assessment Resource

Mark Rosen, MD, PhD
Clinical Imaging Core

Mitchell Schnall, MD, PhD
Small Animal Imaging Core

Vivianna Van Deerlin, MD, PhD
Genomics Facility

David Vaughn, MD
Clinical Research Unit

Clinical Trials Scientific Review and Monitoring Committee

Douglas Fraker, MD
Chair

Data Safety and Monitoring Committee

Brian Czerniecki, MD, PhD
Chair