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Senior Leaders Council

Executive Leadership

Diane Simeone, MD
Director, Moores Cancer Center

J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD
Associate Director of Basic Science

Elena Martinez, PhD
Associate Director for Population Science, Disparities and Community Engagement

Quyen Nguyen, MD
Associate Director for Research Education and Training

Mark Garcia
Interim Executive Director, Administration

Consortium Leadership

San Diego State University (SDSU)

Richard Cripps, DPhil
Co-Leader, Research Education and Training

Corrine McDaniels-Davidson, PhD
Co-Leader, Community Outreach and Education

Noe Crespo, PhD
Director, SDSU Research Liasion

La Jolla Institute (LJI)

Stephen Schoenberger, PhD
LJI Representative

Cheryl Kim
Co-Director, Flow Cytometry

Program Leadership

Jing Yang, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Biology and Signaling

Kun-Liang Guan, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Biology and Signaling

Jill Mesirov, PhD
Co-Leader, Structural and Functional Genomics

Jason Sicklick, MD, FACS
Co-Leader, Structural and Functional Genomics

Samir Gupta, MD
Co-Leader, Cancer Control

Noe C. Crespo, PhD
Co-Leader, Cancer Control

Thomas Kipps, MD, PhD
Co-Leader, Hematologic Malignancies

Leslie A. Crews, PhD
Co-Leader, Hematologic Malignancies

TBN
Co-Leader, Solid Tumor Therapeutics

Judith Varner, PhD
Co-Leader, Solid Tumor Therapeutics

Shared Resource Directors

Alfredo Molinolo, MD, PhD
Director, Biorepository and Tissue Technology

Karen Messer, PhD
Director, Biostatistics

Cheryl Rock, PhD, RD; Brinda Rana, PhD; Noe Crespo, PhD, MPH
Directors, Biobehavioral

Thomas Kipps, MD, PhD and Robert Signer, PhD
Directors, Flow Cytometry

Kelly Frazer, PhD
Director, Genomics and Computational Biology

Pablo Tamayo, PhD
Co-Director, Genomics and Computational Biology

David Hall, PhD
Director, Microscopy

Pamela Mellon, PhD
Director, Transgenic Mice

AdHoc Members

David Cheresh, PhD

Oluwole Fadare, MD

Napoleone Ferrara, MD

Stephen B. Howell, MD

Dan Kaufman, MD, PhD

A.J. Mundt, MD

Judith Varner, PhD

Scott Lippman, MD

Ludmil Alexandrov, PhD