JAX Cancer Center leadership

Executive Committee
Edison Liu, M.D., Chair
Director, JAX Cancer Center
Ken Fasman, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President for Research, The Jackson Laboratory
Charles Lee, Ph.D.
Scientific Director, JAX Genomic Medicine
Karolina Palucka, M.D. Ph.D.
Deputy Director, JAX Cancer Center
Nadia Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Scientific Director, JAX Mammalian Genetics
Jens Rueter, M.D.
Associate Director, Regional Translational Partnerships
JAX Cancer Center
Alan Sawyer
Associate Director, Shared Resources
JAX Cancer Center
Jennifer Trowbridge, Ph.D.
Co-Program Lead, JAX Cancer Center Research Program
Roel Verhaak, Ph.D.
Co-Program Lead, JAX Cancer Center Research Program
Charles Wray, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Cancer Education and Career Enhancement
JAX Cancer Center
External Advisory Board
Karlene Cimprich, Ph.D.
Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Mark A. Israel, M.D.
Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey
Distinguished Chair in Cancer, Emeritus
Director Emeritus, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Professor of Pediatrics & Molecular Systems Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Jill P. Mesirov, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences
University of California, San Diego
Stuart H. Orkin, M.D.
Chair Emeritus, Department of Pediatric Oncology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medical Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Timothy L. Ratliff, Ph.D.
Director
Purdue University Center for Cancer Research
Distinguished Prof. of Comparative Pathobiology
Chris Sander
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Barbara Vance, Ph.D., CRA
Assistant Vice President and Associate Director
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the
University of Miami