JAXCC Leadership & Administration

Leadership
Director: Karolina Palucka, MD, PhD
Interim Deputy Director: Jeffrey Chuang, PhD
Co-Program Leaders: Olga Anczukow, PhD, Ron Korstanje, PhD
Associate Director, Research Administration: Susan Airhart, BS
Associate Director, Shared Resources: Alan Sawyer
Associate Director, CRTEC: Charlie Wray, PhD
Associate Director, PED: Carol Bult, PhD
Associate Director, Translational Impact: Jens Rueter, MD

Center Administration
Assistant Director, Research Administration: Kate Macko, BA
Assistant Director, Research Administration: Swaran Nandini, PhD, PMP

Finance & Grant Administration
Associate Director JAXCC Finance & Senior Director, Financial Planning & Budgeting: Jay Vetelino
Director, Sponsored Research Administration: Diego R. Vazquez, MPA, CRA
Senior Grants Financial Analyst: Jenifer Kennedy, CRA
Director, Research Program Development: Anna Lisa Lucido, PhD, PMP
Senior Scientific Writer: Iiro Taneli Helenius, M.Sc., PhD
Associate Director, Research Reporting & Analytics: Barrett Lunt
Research Administration Systems Analyst: Jeremy Dickson-Smith

Advancement
Senior Vice President, Advancement: Gina Rodriguez

Senior Director, Development: Nancy Fox

Facilities
Senior Director, Facilities Services: John Fitzpatrick, PE

JAXCC 2023 Meeting Schedule Accessible Link

External Advisory Committee

Lisa M. Coussens, Ph.D., FAACR
Associate Director for Basic Research
Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Sciences University 

Wendy Law, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Administration
Fred Hutch / University of Washington Cancer Consortium

Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medical Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School

Timothy L. Ratliff, Ph.D. - Chair
Emeritus Director, Purdue University Center for Cancer Research
Distinguished Prof. of Comparative Pathobiology

John Termini, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Shared Resources, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine

David Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center
Professor, Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research

Yolanda Sanchez, Ph.D.
Director, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center