External Scientific Committee
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) receives advice from its External Scientific Committee (ESC), whose membership includes patient advocates, senior scientists and clinicians with relevant expertise in cancer, genomics and ethics. The members of the ESC are not principal investigators for or funded by TCGA.
Current External Scientific Committee
| Member | Title | Institutional Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Chee, Ph.D. | Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer | Prognosys Biosciences, Inc., La Jolla, Calif. |
| Lynn Dressler, Dr.P.H. | Assistant Professor and Associate Director for Policy and Ethics, Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy | University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, N.C. |
| Geoff Duyk, M.D., Ph.D. | Partner | Texas Pacific Group Ventures, Menlo Park, Calif. |
| David E. Housman, Ph.D. | Ludwig Professor of Biology; Associate in Neurology and Genetics | David H. Kock Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
| Chanita Hughes-Halbert, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Community and Minority Cancer Control Program | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| Bruce E. Johnson, M.D. | Director; Associate Professor of Medicine | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. |
| Susan M. Love, M.D. | President and Medical Director | Dr Susan Love Research Foundation, Santa Barbara, Calif. |
| Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Ph.D. | Director and Professor of Biochemistry | Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn. |
| George W. Sledge Jr., M.D. | Professor of Oncology | Indiana University, Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Louis M. Staudt, M.D., Ph.D. | Chief of Lymphoid Malignancies Section and Deputy Chief of Metabolism Branch | Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md. |
| Robert H. Waterston, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor and Chair | University of Washington, Seattle |
Past Members
| Member | Title | Institutional Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
William P. Bro, B.S. | President and Chief Executive Officer | Kidney Cancer Association (KCA), Chicago, Ill. |
| Ronald A. DePinho, M.D. | Professor of Medicine (Genetics) | Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. |
| Sean Eddy, Ph.D. | Investigator; Professor of Computational Biology | Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo. |
| Steven Henikoff, Ph.D. | Investigator | Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash. |
| Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D. | President and Director | Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Wash. |
| Catherine E. Ivy, M.S. | President | The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation, Palo Alto, Calif. |
| Christopher J. Logothetis, M.D. | Professor and Chair of Genitourinary Medical Oncology | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
| Frank McCormick, Ph.D. | Director and Professor | Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; University of California, San Francisco, Calif. |
| Charles Sawyers, M.D. | Marie Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair and the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program Chair | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y. |
| Dennis J. Slamon, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor and Chief | University of California, Los Angeles |
