The External Advisory Board consists of National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center directors, senior leaders, administrators, and scientists who provide advice to Huntsman Cancer Institute related to its Cancer Center Support Grant and evaluate the Cancer Center's progress toward strategic goals.
Board Members
Robert Croyle, PhD
Former Director of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS)
Elaine Fuchs, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development
The Rockefeller University
Ernest Hawk, MD, MPH
Vice President and Division Head of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences
Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair for Early Prevention of Cancer
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
Nita J. Maihle, PhD
Associate Director for Basic Research
Professor, Departments of Medicine & Cell Biology
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, FACP
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics
Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics & Global Health
University of Chicago
Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD
Director, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Executive Vice President for Research, VUMC
Benjamin F. Byrd, Jr. Professor of Oncology
Brock Family Directorship in Career Development
Professor of Biochemistry and Otolaryngology
Vanderbilt University
Leonidas C. Platanias, MD, PhD
Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Jesse, Sara, Andrew, Abigail, Benjamin and Elizabeth Lurie Professor of Oncology
Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Northwestern University
John Pounardjian, MBA
Associate Director for Administration, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Timothy Rebbeck, PhD
Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention
Director, Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Director, Equity and Engagement
Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center
Sandra Swain, MD, FACP, FASCO
Associate Dean for Research Development
Professor of Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center