Cancer Center Administration

Interim Deputy Director and Program Leader: Robert E. Braun, Ph.D.

Interim Deputy Director for Planning/Evaluation and co-Program Leader: Carol Bult

Interim Deputy Director for Internal/External Relations and co-Program Leader: Kevin Mills 

Director, Genetic Resources: Leah Rae Donahue, Ph.D.

Administrative Director: Charles Hewett, Ph.D.

Scientific Services Administration: Valerie Scott. B.S.

Research Administration: Cookie Willems, C.R.A. (Sponsored Programs), Barbara Tennent, Ph.D. (Program Development)

External Advisory Board

  • Edward Benz Jr., M.D.
    –President, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
  • Stuart Orkin, M.D.
    –Chair, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatrics
  • Pier Paolo Pandolfi, M.D., Ph.D.
    –Director, Cancer Genetics Program; Associate Director, Cancer Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine; Harvard Medical School
  • Mark Israel, M.D.
    –Director, Norris Cotton Cancer Center; Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
  • Barbara Vance, Ph.D., CRA
    –Associate Director, Research Initiatives and Administration, Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania