MEET OUR FUNDED INVESTIGATORS

To date, the SWCRF Institute Without Walls has funded more than 200 science investigators across the top research universities and institutions in the United States, Europe and Asia. We fund some of the brightest minds in their fields who strive to search beyond the obvious to achieve groundbreaking discoveries and move us towards eradicating cancer for good. Meet our currently-funded investigators.

Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD.

Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Albert S. Baldwin, Jr., Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, Lineberger Cancer Center

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Steven Baylin, M.D.

Professor for Cancer Research Professor of Oncology and Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Robert Casero, Jr. Ph.D.

Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Program

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Cynthia Zahnow, M.S., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Oncology

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Sai-Juan Chen, M.D.

Director of National Center for Translational Medicine

Shanghai Institute of Hematology

John Crispino, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Northwestern University School of Medicine

Jayanta Debnath, M.D.

Professor and Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

Ethan Dmitrovsky, M.D.

Laboratory Director

Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, Gene Expression Laboratory

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Christopher French, M.D.

Associate Professor of Pathology

Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Doris Germain, Ph.D.

Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Margaret Goodell, Ph.D.

Professor and Director

Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Center Baylor College of Medicine

Shai Izraeli, M.D.

Professor and Director

Hematology-Oncology Department Tel Aviv University Medical School

Ross Levine, M.D.

Physician-Scientist

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Jonathan D. Licht, M.D.

Director, Division of Hematology and Oncology

The University of Florida Health Cancer Center

Josep Llovet, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Professor of Research

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ari Melnick, M.D.

Professor of Hematology/Oncology

Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University

Wilson Miller, M.D., Ph.D.

Director of Laboratory Research, Division of Hematology-Oncology

Jewish General Hospital

Gilbert Prive, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

William Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-Leader, Pediatric Malignancies Program

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center University of California, San Francisco

Kevan Shokat, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology University of California, San Francisco

Robert Weinberg, Ph.D.

Professor for Cancer Research

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Yue Xiong, Ph.D.

Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ming-Ming Zhou, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Oncological Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Yongkui Jing, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Alexander MacKerell, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences

University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Ruibao Ren, M.D., Ph.D.

Deputy Director

Shanghai Institute of Hematology

Nabeel Bardeesy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor, MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital

George Miller, M.D.

Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery NYU Langone Perlmutter Cancer Center

Samuel Waxman, M.D.

Distinguished Service Professor

Icahn School of Medicine