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| 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 or funded by TCGA.
Current and past members of the ESC are listed here.
TCGA External Scientific Committee
| Member |
Title |
Institutional Affiliation |
| William P. Bro, B.S. |
President and Chief Executive Officer |
Kidney Cancer Association (KCA), Chicago, Ill. |
| 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 |
| Catherine E. Ivy, M.S. |
President |
The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation, Palo Alto, Calif. |
| Bruce E. Johnson, M.D. |
Director; Associate Professor of Medicine |
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass.; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. |
| Robert H. Waterston, M.D., Ph.D. |
Professor and Chair |
University of Washington, Seattle |
Past Members of the TCGA External Scientific Committee
| Member |
Title |
Institutional Affiliation |
| 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. |
| Christopher J. Logothetis, M.D. |
Professor and Chair of Genitourinary Medical Oncology |
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
| 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 |
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