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2017 ANNUAL REPO RT To accelerate breakthroughs the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation provides today s best young scientists with funding to pursue innovative cancer research Our goal is to foster the talent capable of revolutionizing the prevention detection and treatment of all forms of cancer Because Damon Runyon s focus is on breakthroughs against cancer we spend a great deal of time seeking to identify the essential characteristics of breakthrough scientists There is no doubt that they must be exceptionally brilliant That s obvious They also need to have creative ideas and the ability to see potential that others fail to recognize They need to question everything challenge dogma and be willing to go against the grain All of these traits are crucial In this annual report we feature four of our recent award recipients each with a different motivation that drives their research All of the over 3 600 scientists who we have funded over the past 71 years have their own unique motivations But they all have this in common THEY ARE DRIVEN BUT ABOVE ALL BREAKTHROUGH SCIENTISTS MUST BE DRIVEN THEY MUST HAVE AN INTENSE RELENTLESS PASSION FOR THEIR RESEARCH 24 7 Scientific research is hard Experiments run on their own clock and often fail Even the experiments that succeed need to be repeated and refined to confirm the findings Then it is on to the next experiment One must be singularly driven to pursue answers that will change the world L O R R A I N E W E G A N President and Chief Executive Officer Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation 1
2017 ANNUAL REPO RT To accelerate breakthroughs the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation provides today s best young scientists with funding to pursue innovative cancer research Our goal is to foster the talent capable of revolutionizing the prevention detection and treatment of all forms of cancer Because Damon Runyon s focus is on breakthroughs against cancer we spend a great deal of time seeking to identify the essential characteristics of breakthrough scientists There is no doubt that they must be exceptionally brilliant That s obvious They also need to have creative ideas and the ability to see potential that others fail to recognize They need to question everything challenge dogma and be willing to go against the grain All of these traits are crucial In this annual report we feature four of our recent award recipients each with a different motivation that drives their research All of the over 3 600 scientists who we have funded over the past 71 years have their own unique motivations But they all have this in common THEY ARE DRIVEN BUT ABOVE ALL BREAKTHROUGH SCIENTISTS MUST BE DRIVEN THEY MUST HAVE AN INTENSE RELENTLESS PASSION FOR THEIR RESEARCH 24 7 Scientific research is hard Experiments run on their own clock and often fail Even the experiments that succeed need to be repeated and refined to confirm the findings Then it is on to the next experiment One must be singularly driven to pursue answers that will change the world L O R R A I N E W E G A N President and Chief Executive Officer Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation 1
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Driven to Pay It Forward Aaron D Viny MD MS MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER NEW YORK NEW YORK After overcoming his own cancer diagnosis in college Aaron is hunting for genetic mutations that trigger acute myeloid leukemia SOMETIMES FATE is suggestive and I owe a debt of thanks to my doctors my only hope is that I can pay it forward with the opportunity that has been given to me AARON D VINY MD MS 2 genes in a complex called Cohesin he will determine if targeting these genetic defects can stop the deadly progression to blood cancer Reflecting on the treatment he received as a cancer patient Aaron feels a strong obligation to use his scientific expertise to help patients I owe a debt of thanks to my doctors in Cleveland and the scientists who came before me My only hope is that I can pay it forward with the opportunity that has been given to me Science gave Aaron two gifts of life His daughter Lilah turned two years old this past summer and she is the product of post cancer fertility assistance added Aaron Her journey into this world actually started 14 years ago despite her just turning two years old It s been exciting to see her grow and to know that my darkest day the day I started chemotherapy is now forever linked with one of the brightest days of my life the day my daughter was born Two great reasons to pay it forward sometimes it s a firm push In my case it was the latter reflects Aaron When I was a junior in college I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and I took a hiatus from college to be treated at the Cleveland Clinic This life experience led Aaron to choose a career as an oncologist and cancer researcher He is completing his training as a Damon Runyon Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York HE IS DRIVEN TO FIND NEW WAYS TO CURE LEUKEMIA After an initial remission the cancer reappeared in my spinal fluid My brother was a perfect bone marrow match and the resulting bone marrow transplant provided a new immune system that was able to identify attack and kill the remaining leukemia cells This past July I celebrated 14 years of being cancer free Using the latest technologies Aaron is hunting for genetic mutations that cause acute myeloid leukemia to occur Once he identifies potential genetic defects as he has done recently with mutated 3
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Driven to Pay It Forward Aaron D Viny MD MS MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER NEW YORK NEW YORK After overcoming his own cancer diagnosis in college Aaron is hunting for genetic mutations that trigger acute myeloid leukemia SOMETIMES FATE is suggestive and I owe a debt of thanks to my doctors my only hope is that I can pay it forward with the opportunity that has been given to me AARON D VINY MD MS 2 genes in a complex called Cohesin he will determine if targeting these genetic defects can stop the deadly progression to blood cancer Reflecting on the treatment he received as a cancer patient Aaron feels a strong obligation to use his scientific expertise to help patients I owe a debt of thanks to my doctors in Cleveland and the scientists who came before me My only hope is that I can pay it forward with the opportunity that has been given to me Science gave Aaron two gifts of life His daughter Lilah turned two years old this past summer and she is the product of post cancer fertility assistance added Aaron Her journey into this world actually started 14 years ago despite her just turning two years old It s been exciting to see her grow and to know that my darkest day the day I started chemotherapy is now forever linked with one of the brightest days of my life the day my daughter was born Two great reasons to pay it forward sometimes it s a firm push In my case it was the latter reflects Aaron When I was a junior in college I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and I took a hiatus from college to be treated at the Cleveland Clinic This life experience led Aaron to choose a career as an oncologist and cancer researcher He is completing his training as a Damon Runyon Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York HE IS DRIVEN TO FIND NEW WAYS TO CURE LEUKEMIA After an initial remission the cancer reappeared in my spinal fluid My brother was a perfect bone marrow match and the resulting bone marrow transplant provided a new immune system that was able to identify attack and kill the remaining leukemia cells This past July I celebrated 14 years of being cancer free Using the latest technologies Aaron is hunting for genetic mutations that cause acute myeloid leukemia to occur Once he identifies potential genetic defects as he has done recently with mutated 3
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Driven to Save Her Patients Christine M Lovly MD PhD VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER NASHVILLE TENNESSEE Christine aims to develop treatment strategies that minimize cancer cells chances of developing resistance to effective drugs FOR CHRISTINE a Damon Runyon If you are a cancer patient you should have access to the best therapies that anybody can give CHRISTINE M LOVLY MD PhD 4 research community and discovered that other cancer patients with different types of cancers also had this identical mutation Christine teamed up with other scientists to help build a new computational model of the effects of this mutation grew her patient s tumor in the lab so that it could be tested with different drugs and identified an existing drug that attacked these cells After proving that she had identified a new target for this drug she was able to treat her patient with it and his tumor shrank by more than 50 While Christine s efforts were ultimately too late to save his life she is determined to make sure she applies this knowledge to help other patients As part of this commitment Christine helped launch the website My Cancer Genome which provides information about genetic mutations identified in cancers and treatment options to oncologists across the globe She says I don t care if you live in New York City or Nashville or rural Alaska If you are a cancer patient you should have access to the best therapies that anybody can give anywhere in the country and anywhere in the world Clinical Investigator at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville her patients and her research are inextricably linked Everything she does in the lab is for her patients Not just future patients but the ones she sees right now Christine is an expert in lung cancer and is focusing on why patients often relapse after initially responding to treatment a difficult obstacle in saving lives The goal of my research is to understand how we can make the initial treatment with the drug better and last longer and if the tumor becomes resistant to the drug how do we actually overcome resistance We want to make sure we have a Plan A Plan B Plan C and Plan D to stay ahead of the tumor so it never has a chance to relapse THAT CHRISTINE IS DRIVEN TO SAVE HER PATIENTS is exemplified by a story she tells about a recent patient a 33 year old father of three diagnosed with advanced lung cancer Genomic testing of his tumor revealed a mutation that had never before been identified in cancer patients While he was being treated with standard chemotherapy Christine reached out to the 5
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Driven to Save Her Patients Christine M Lovly MD PhD VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER NASHVILLE TENNESSEE Christine aims to develop treatment strategies that minimize cancer cells chances of developing resistance to effective drugs FOR CHRISTINE a Damon Runyon If you are a cancer patient you should have access to the best therapies that anybody can give CHRISTINE M LOVLY MD PhD 4 research community and discovered that other cancer patients with different types of cancers also had this identical mutation Christine teamed up with other scientists to help build a new computational model of the effects of this mutation grew her patient s tumor in the lab so that it could be tested with different drugs and identified an existing drug that attacked these cells After proving that she had identified a new target for this drug she was able to treat her patient with it and his tumor shrank by more than 50 While Christine s efforts were ultimately too late to save his life she is determined to make sure she applies this knowledge to help other patients As part of this commitment Christine helped launch the website My Cancer Genome which provides information about genetic mutations identified in cancers and treatment options to oncologists across the globe She says I don t care if you live in New York City or Nashville or rural Alaska If you are a cancer patient you should have access to the best therapies that anybody can give anywhere in the country and anywhere in the world Clinical Investigator at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville her patients and her research are inextricably linked Everything she does in the lab is for her patients Not just future patients but the ones she sees right now Christine is an expert in lung cancer and is focusing on why patients often relapse after initially responding to treatment a difficult obstacle in saving lives The goal of my research is to understand how we can make the initial treatment with the drug better and last longer and if the tumor becomes resistant to the drug how do we actually overcome resistance We want to make sure we have a Plan A Plan B Plan C and Plan D to stay ahead of the tumor so it never has a chance to relapse THAT CHRISTINE IS DRIVEN TO SAVE HER PATIENTS is exemplified by a story she tells about a recent patient a 33 year old father of three diagnosed with advanced lung cancer Genomic testing of his tumor revealed a mutation that had never before been identified in cancer patients While he was being treated with standard chemotherapy Christine reached out to the 5
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Driven to Innovate Adam de la Zerda PhD STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD CALIFORNIA Adam is developing sophisticated imaging technology that will aid in early detection and even removal of cancerous tissue ADAM started out as a graduate student With the Damon Runyon funding you can take quite a bit of risk and in fact it s even expected of you ADAM DE LA ZERDA PhD 6 different applications from the early detection of cancer to helping surgeons identify and remove tumors while leaving healthy tissue intact We hope to see this technology go into human studies in the near future Adam exemplifies Damon Runyon s focus on finding creative out of thebox thinkers and encouraging them to take risks on new ideas He received two Damon Runyon Awards a Damon Runyon Fellowship and the Dale F Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists I knew I wanted to do something in cancer but I don t come from the world of biology Damon Runyon believes in the individual rather than the particular work they are proposing to do It s more about the individuals and believing in their potential to do great things And that right there had a huge huge impact on me added Adam With the Damon Runyon funding you don t have to play it safe you can take quite a bit of risk and in fact it s even expected of you and that s great Damon Runyon has made it possible to do everything we re doing in the lab right now at Stanford University as an engineer pursuing a PhD in quantum physics I had no intention of going into biology or medicine he admits But a few months after I arrived a very good friend of mine passed away from brain cancer He was my age and suffered for almost a year When that happened it changed all of my priorities I was ready to quit the PhD program and go to medical school I felt that being an engineer there was no way I could ever help someone with cancer But then I started talking to a bunch of people here and got to see first hand how engineers and physicists like me can be helpful in the fight against cancer When I discovered that I discovered a new passion a new life commitment for myself And I never looked back ADAM IS DRIVEN TO HARNESS TECHNOLOGY TO SAVE LIVES Adam is now pushing the boundaries of imaging technology In my lab we re now developing all sorts of medical imaging tools with the intent of looking into the human body and trying to identify features indicative of disease We are using them in a whole host of 7
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Driven to Innovate Adam de la Zerda PhD STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD CALIFORNIA Adam is developing sophisticated imaging technology that will aid in early detection and even removal of cancerous tissue ADAM started out as a graduate student With the Damon Runyon funding you can take quite a bit of risk and in fact it s even expected of you ADAM DE LA ZERDA PhD 6 different applications from the early detection of cancer to helping surgeons identify and remove tumors while leaving healthy tissue intact We hope to see this technology go into human studies in the near future Adam exemplifies Damon Runyon s focus on finding creative out of thebox thinkers and encouraging them to take risks on new ideas He received two Damon Runyon Awards a Damon Runyon Fellowship and the Dale F Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists I knew I wanted to do something in cancer but I don t come from the world of biology Damon Runyon believes in the individual rather than the particular work they are proposing to do It s more about the individuals and believing in their potential to do great things And that right there had a huge huge impact on me added Adam With the Damon Runyon funding you don t have to play it safe you can take quite a bit of risk and in fact it s even expected of you and that s great Damon Runyon has made it possible to do everything we re doing in the lab right now at Stanford University as an engineer pursuing a PhD in quantum physics I had no intention of going into biology or medicine he admits But a few months after I arrived a very good friend of mine passed away from brain cancer He was my age and suffered for almost a year When that happened it changed all of my priorities I was ready to quit the PhD program and go to medical school I felt that being an engineer there was no way I could ever help someone with cancer But then I started talking to a bunch of people here and got to see first hand how engineers and physicists like me can be helpful in the fight against cancer When I discovered that I discovered a new passion a new life commitment for myself And I never looked back ADAM IS DRIVEN TO HARNESS TECHNOLOGY TO SAVE LIVES Adam is now pushing the boundaries of imaging technology In my lab we re now developing all sorts of medical imaging tools with the intent of looking into the human body and trying to identify features indicative of disease We are using them in a whole host of 7
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Driven to Tackle Big Questions El in nal PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY BERKELEY CALIFORNIA El in is defining the link between aging and cancer EL IN a Damon Runyon Rachleff Damon Runyon funding lets us plunge into new and uncharted territory EL IN NAL PhD 8 her ideas were novel and daring She is grateful that they gave her the freedom to pursue this work It s hard to imagine what my career would be like without the Damon Runyon funding It would be more safe and maybe less interesting and certainly less risky says El in At this stage of my career as a new assistant professor I m starting my lab with fresh ideas and energy To be able to get funding from Damon Runyon now lets us plunge into new and uncharted territory She is also grateful that Damon Runyon supports research asking hard fundamental questions My research is basic science I don t do a lot of translational research I think the fact that Damon Runyon actually values this type of research is quite fantastic because it recognizes that a lot of the interesting biology comes from basic science I like that they are very balanced in terms of what they fund and what they look for from the investigators It s a nice mix of basic and translational research funding which I think is important for getting the most synergy leading to progress against cancer and other diseases Innovator at the University of California Berkeley wants to understand why cancer is most common in older individuals The primary cause of most cancers is not cigarette smoking or a person s diet or occupation Aging is the primary or main carcinogen but we really don t know how it happens El in studies a developmental process called gametogenesis which resets the aging process asking questions like The progeny offspring of a 20 yearold man and a 70 year old man are similar Why She also discovered that a certain transcription factor a protein that regulates genes involved in gametogenesis can make old yeast cells younger removing damage and extending their lifespan raising another interesting question Can we use the rejuvenation processes of gametogenesis to reverse aging in mammals EL IN IS DRIVEN TO SOLVE THIS PUZZLE At the time that El in was selected for a Damon Runyon Innovation Award the selection committee acknowledged that 9
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Driven to Tackle Big Questions El in nal PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY BERKELEY CALIFORNIA El in is defining the link between aging and cancer EL IN a Damon Runyon Rachleff Damon Runyon funding lets us plunge into new and uncharted territory EL IN NAL PhD 8 her ideas were novel and daring She is grateful that they gave her the freedom to pursue this work It s hard to imagine what my career would be like without the Damon Runyon funding It would be more safe and maybe less interesting and certainly less risky says El in At this stage of my career as a new assistant professor I m starting my lab with fresh ideas and energy To be able to get funding from Damon Runyon now lets us plunge into new and uncharted territory She is also grateful that Damon Runyon supports research asking hard fundamental questions My research is basic science I don t do a lot of translational research I think the fact that Damon Runyon actually values this type of research is quite fantastic because it recognizes that a lot of the interesting biology comes from basic science I like that they are very balanced in terms of what they fund and what they look for from the investigators It s a nice mix of basic and translational research funding which I think is important for getting the most synergy leading to progress against cancer and other diseases Innovator at the University of California Berkeley wants to understand why cancer is most common in older individuals The primary cause of most cancers is not cigarette smoking or a person s diet or occupation Aging is the primary or main carcinogen but we really don t know how it happens El in studies a developmental process called gametogenesis which resets the aging process asking questions like The progeny offspring of a 20 yearold man and a 70 year old man are similar Why She also discovered that a certain transcription factor a protein that regulates genes involved in gametogenesis can make old yeast cells younger removing damage and extending their lifespan raising another interesting question Can we use the rejuvenation processes of gametogenesis to reverse aging in mammals EL IN IS DRIVEN TO SOLVE THIS PUZZLE At the time that El in was selected for a Damon Runyon Innovation Award the selection committee acknowledged that 9
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Board of Directors Mr Noah Knauf General Partner Kleiner Perkins San Francisco California Gabrielle Layton PhD VICE CHAIR VICE CHAIR SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AUDIT AND SECRETARY Professor of Medicine Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Boston Massachusetts Of Counsel Schulte Roth Zabel LLP New York New York William G Kaelin Jr MD VICE CHAIR CHAIR Mr Alan M Leventhal Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Beacon Capital Partners LLC Boston Massachusetts INVESTMENTS AND TREASURER Mr Leon G Cooperman Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Omega Advisors Inc New York New York Sanford W Morhouse Esq VICE CHAIR BOARD DEVELOPMENT Mr Michael L Gordon Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer Angelo Gordon Co New York New York VICE CHAIR DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING Mr David M Beirne General Partner 10X Capital Coral Gables Florida Steven J Burakoff MD Dean for Cancer Innovation The Tisch Cancer Institute Lillian and Henry M Stratton Professor of Cancer Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center New York New York Mr Buck French General Partner 10X Capital San Francisco California Elaine V Fuchs PhD Legal Counsel Convexity Capital Management LP Boston Massachusetts Head Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development Rebecca C Lancefield Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator The Rockefeller University New York New York Ms Robyn Coles Richard B Gaynor MD Ms Deborah J Coleman President TRATE Properties LLC Boston Massachusetts Mr Gary E Erlbaum President Greentree Properties Ardmore Pennsylvania Thomas J Fahey Jr MD Senior Vice President Emeritus Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York President of Research and Development Neon Therapeutics Cambridge Massachusetts Todd R Golub MD Chief Scientific Officer Director Cancer Program The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Charles A Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School 10 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Cambridge Massachusetts Mr Scott Greenstein President and Chief Content Officer SiriusXM New York New York Mr Steve Hayden Vice Chairman and Chief Creative Officer Retired Ogilvy Mather Worldwide New York New York Mr Jay W Ireland President and Chief Executive Officer GE Africa General Electric Nairobi Kenya Morana Jovan Embiricos PhD Managing Partner F2 Capital Ventures LLP London United Kingdom Mr Steven A Kandarian Chairman President and Chief Executive Officer MetLife Inc New York New York Palo Alto California David M Livingston MD Deputy Director Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center Chief Charles A Dana Division of Human Cancer Genetics Emil Frei Professor of Genetics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts Mr David G Marshall Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Amerimar Realty Company Philadelphia Pennsylvania Mr John H Myers Director Academy Securities New York New York Richard J O Reilly MD Chief Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service Claire L Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Mr Andrew S Rachleff President and Chief Executive Officer Wealthfront Inc Redwood City California Mr William M Raveis Jr Founder Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William Raveis Real Estate Mortgage Insurance Southport Connecticut Michael V Seiden MD PhD Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer McKesson Specialty Health The US Oncology Network The Woodlands Texas EMERITUS B OA R D M E M B E R S Mrs Connie Lurie Sidney Altman PhD I George Miller Jr MD Sterling Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Professor of Chemistry Yale University Department of Chemistry New Haven Connecticut David Baltimore PhD President Emeritus Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology California Institute of Technology Pasadena California Mr Kenneth G Langone Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Invemed Associates LLC New York New York Ronald Levy MD Professor of Medicine Division of Oncology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California Atherton California John F Enders Professor of Pediatrics Professor of Epidemiology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Section Chief Pediatric Infectious Diseases Yale School of Public Health New Haven Connecticut Henry C Pitot MD PhD Professor Emeritus of Oncology Pathology and Laboratory Medicine McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Madison Wisconsin Mrs Katharine F Plum Hobe Sound Florida 11 Ms Karen D Seitz Founder and Managing Director Fusion Partners New York New York Nancy Simonian MD Chief Executive Officer Syros Pharmaceuticals Inc Cambridge Massachusetts Ms Cynthia F Sulzberger Wellington Florida Mr Peter Van Camp Executive Chairman Equinix Inc Redwood City California James A Wells PhD Chair Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professor Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology University of California San Francisco San Francisco California Ms Lorraine W Egan President and Chief Executive Officer Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Samuel C Silverstein MD John C Dalton Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Professor of Medicine Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York New York Craig B Thompson MD President and Chief Executive Officer Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Ms Virginia Ueberroth Chairman The Ueberroth Family Foundation Corona del Mar California Mr Bob Wright Senior Advisor Lee Equity Partners LLC New York New York Robert C Young MD Former Chancellor Fox Chase Cancer Center President RCY Medicine Philadelphia Pennsylvania
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Board of Directors Mr Noah Knauf General Partner Kleiner Perkins San Francisco California Gabrielle Layton PhD VICE CHAIR VICE CHAIR SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AUDIT AND SECRETARY Professor of Medicine Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Boston Massachusetts Of Counsel Schulte Roth Zabel LLP New York New York William G Kaelin Jr MD VICE CHAIR CHAIR Mr Alan M Leventhal Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Beacon Capital Partners LLC Boston Massachusetts INVESTMENTS AND TREASURER Mr Leon G Cooperman Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Omega Advisors Inc New York New York Sanford W Morhouse Esq VICE CHAIR BOARD DEVELOPMENT Mr Michael L Gordon Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer Angelo Gordon Co New York New York VICE CHAIR DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING Mr David M Beirne General Partner 10X Capital Coral Gables Florida Steven J Burakoff MD Dean for Cancer Innovation The Tisch Cancer Institute Lillian and Henry M Stratton Professor of Cancer Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center New York New York Mr Buck French General Partner 10X Capital San Francisco California Elaine V Fuchs PhD Legal Counsel Convexity Capital Management LP Boston Massachusetts Head Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development Rebecca C Lancefield Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator The Rockefeller University New York New York Ms Robyn Coles Richard B Gaynor MD Ms Deborah J Coleman President TRATE Properties LLC Boston Massachusetts Mr Gary E Erlbaum President Greentree Properties Ardmore Pennsylvania Thomas J Fahey Jr MD Senior Vice President Emeritus Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York President of Research and Development Neon Therapeutics Cambridge Massachusetts Todd R Golub MD Chief Scientific Officer Director Cancer Program The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Charles A Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School 10 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Cambridge Massachusetts Mr Scott Greenstein President and Chief Content Officer SiriusXM New York New York Mr Steve Hayden Vice Chairman and Chief Creative Officer Retired Ogilvy Mather Worldwide New York New York Mr Jay W Ireland President and Chief Executive Officer GE Africa General Electric Nairobi Kenya Morana Jovan Embiricos PhD Managing Partner F2 Capital Ventures LLP London United Kingdom Mr Steven A Kandarian Chairman President and Chief Executive Officer MetLife Inc New York New York Palo Alto California David M Livingston MD Deputy Director Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center Chief Charles A Dana Division of Human Cancer Genetics Emil Frei Professor of Genetics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts Mr David G Marshall Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Amerimar Realty Company Philadelphia Pennsylvania Mr John H Myers Director Academy Securities New York New York Richard J O Reilly MD Chief Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service Claire L Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Mr Andrew S Rachleff President and Chief Executive Officer Wealthfront Inc Redwood City California Mr William M Raveis Jr Founder Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William Raveis Real Estate Mortgage Insurance Southport Connecticut Michael V Seiden MD PhD Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer McKesson Specialty Health The US Oncology Network The Woodlands Texas EMERITUS B OA R D M E M B E R S Mrs Connie Lurie Sidney Altman PhD I George Miller Jr MD Sterling Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Professor of Chemistry Yale University Department of Chemistry New Haven Connecticut David Baltimore PhD President Emeritus Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology California Institute of Technology Pasadena California Mr Kenneth G Langone Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Invemed Associates LLC New York New York Ronald Levy MD Professor of Medicine Division of Oncology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California Atherton California John F Enders Professor of Pediatrics Professor of Epidemiology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Section Chief Pediatric Infectious Diseases Yale School of Public Health New Haven Connecticut Henry C Pitot MD PhD Professor Emeritus of Oncology Pathology and Laboratory Medicine McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Madison Wisconsin Mrs Katharine F Plum Hobe Sound Florida 11 Ms Karen D Seitz Founder and Managing Director Fusion Partners New York New York Nancy Simonian MD Chief Executive Officer Syros Pharmaceuticals Inc Cambridge Massachusetts Ms Cynthia F Sulzberger Wellington Florida Mr Peter Van Camp Executive Chairman Equinix Inc Redwood City California James A Wells PhD Chair Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professor Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology University of California San Francisco San Francisco California Ms Lorraine W Egan President and Chief Executive Officer Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Samuel C Silverstein MD John C Dalton Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Professor of Medicine Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York New York Craig B Thompson MD President and Chief Executive Officer Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Ms Virginia Ueberroth Chairman The Ueberroth Family Foundation Corona del Mar California Mr Bob Wright Senior Advisor Lee Equity Partners LLC New York New York Robert C Young MD Former Chancellor Fox Chase Cancer Center President RCY Medicine Philadelphia Pennsylvania
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Award Programs New York Metro Area Committee Steven J Burakoff MD Dean for Cancer Innovation The Tisch Cancer Institute Lillian and Henry M Stratton Professor of Cancer Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center New York New York Ms Robyn Coles President TRATE Properties LLC Boston Massachusetts Ms Erica Evans Head of Client Engagement Hirtle Callaghan Co West Conshohocken Pennsylvania Thomas J Fahey Jr MD Senior Vice President Emeritus Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Elaine V Fuchs PhD Head Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development Rebecca C Lancefield Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator The Rockefeller University New York New York Mr Michael L Gordon Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer Angelo Gordon Co New York New York Mr Scott Greenstein President and Chief Content Officer SiriusXM New York New York Mr Steve Hayden Vice Chairman and Chief Creative Officer Retired Ogilvy Mather Worldwide New York New York Mr Steven A Kandarian Chairman President and Chief Executive Officer MetLife Inc New York New York Mr Gerald M Marshall Co Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Amerimar Enterprises Inc New York New York Mr John H Myers Director Academy Securities New York New York Richard J O Reilly MD Chief Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service Claire L Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Mr William M Raveis Jr Founder Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William Raveis Real Estate Mortgage Insurance Southport Connecticut Founder and Managing Director Fusion Partners New York New York Sanford W Morhouse Esq Of Counsel Schulte Roth Zabel LLP New York New York Ms Carson Eltoukhy Gabrielle Layton PhD Ms Judy Swanson Mr Buck French Mrs Connie Lurie Mr Peter Van Camp General Partner 10X Capital San Francisco California Mr Noah Knauf General Partner Kleiner Perkins San Francisco California Ms Brigette Lau Board Partner Social Capital Partnership Palo Alto California Palo Alto California Atherton California Mr Andrew S Rachleff President and Chief Executive Officer Wealthfront Inc Redwood City California Gordon M Ringold PhD Chief Executive Officer Quadriga Biosciences Palo Alto California Ms Karen D Seitz Damon Runyon Rachleff Innovation Award Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award Supports the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with high risk high reward ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and approaches to the prevention diagnosis or treatment of cancer Supports early career physician scientists conducting patient oriented research The goal of this innovative program is to increase the number of physicians capable of moving seamlessly between the laboratory and the patient s bedside in search of breakthrough treatments TWO YEAR AWARD 300 000 with possibility of extension up to an additional 300 000 THREE YEAR AWARD 450 000 plus up to 100 000 for medical school loan repayment with possibility of extension up to an additional 300 000 Damon Runyon Fellowship Award Damon Runyon Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award Supports the training of the brightest postdoctoral scientists as they embark upon their research careers This funding enables them to be mentored by established investigators in leading research laboratories across the country Supports dedicated basic scientists and clinicians who conduct research with the potential to significantly impact the prevention diagnosis or treatment of one or more pediatric cancers FOUR YEAR AWARD 231 000 FOUR YEAR AWARD 231 000 Damon Runyon Dale F Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists Damon Runyon PhysicianScientist Training Award Ms Karen D Seitz Bay Area Committee Atherton California I N F Y 2 0 1 7 DA M O N R U N YO N AWA R D E D 1 7 M I L L I O N I N N E W G R A N T S T O 6 3 E XC E P T I O N A L S C I E N T I S T S I N 9 S TAT E S Hillsborough California Executive Chairman Equinix Inc Redwood City California James A Wells PhD Chair Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professor Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology University of California San Francisco San Francisco California Supports a select few Damon Runyon Fellows who have greatly exceeded the Foundation s highest expectations This additional investment in these exceptional individuals catapults their research careers and their impact on cancer TWO YEAR AWARD 100 000 Supports and encourages outstanding recent medical school graduates to pursue cancer research careers by providing them with the opportunity for a protected research training experience under the mentorship of a highly qualified and gifted mentor FOUR YEAR AWARD 460 000 plus up to 100 000 for medical school loan repayment Founder and Managing Director Fusion Partners New York New York 12 13
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Award Programs New York Metro Area Committee Steven J Burakoff MD Dean for Cancer Innovation The Tisch Cancer Institute Lillian and Henry M Stratton Professor of Cancer Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center New York New York Ms Robyn Coles President TRATE Properties LLC Boston Massachusetts Ms Erica Evans Head of Client Engagement Hirtle Callaghan Co West Conshohocken Pennsylvania Thomas J Fahey Jr MD Senior Vice President Emeritus Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Elaine V Fuchs PhD Head Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development Rebecca C Lancefield Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator The Rockefeller University New York New York Mr Michael L Gordon Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer Angelo Gordon Co New York New York Mr Scott Greenstein President and Chief Content Officer SiriusXM New York New York Mr Steve Hayden Vice Chairman and Chief Creative Officer Retired Ogilvy Mather Worldwide New York New York Mr Steven A Kandarian Chairman President and Chief Executive Officer MetLife Inc New York New York Mr Gerald M Marshall Co Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Amerimar Enterprises Inc New York New York Mr John H Myers Director Academy Securities New York New York Richard J O Reilly MD Chief Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service Claire L Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Mr William M Raveis Jr Founder Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William Raveis Real Estate Mortgage Insurance Southport Connecticut Founder and Managing Director Fusion Partners New York New York Sanford W Morhouse Esq Of Counsel Schulte Roth Zabel LLP New York New York Ms Carson Eltoukhy Gabrielle Layton PhD Ms Judy Swanson Mr Buck French Mrs Connie Lurie Mr Peter Van Camp General Partner 10X Capital San Francisco California Mr Noah Knauf General Partner Kleiner Perkins San Francisco California Ms Brigette Lau Board Partner Social Capital Partnership Palo Alto California Palo Alto California Atherton California Mr Andrew S Rachleff President and Chief Executive Officer Wealthfront Inc Redwood City California Gordon M Ringold PhD Chief Executive Officer Quadriga Biosciences Palo Alto California Ms Karen D Seitz Damon Runyon Rachleff Innovation Award Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award Supports the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with high risk high reward ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and approaches to the prevention diagnosis or treatment of cancer Supports early career physician scientists conducting patient oriented research The goal of this innovative program is to increase the number of physicians capable of moving seamlessly between the laboratory and the patient s bedside in search of breakthrough treatments TWO YEAR AWARD 300 000 with possibility of extension up to an additional 300 000 THREE YEAR AWARD 450 000 plus up to 100 000 for medical school loan repayment with possibility of extension up to an additional 300 000 Damon Runyon Fellowship Award Damon Runyon Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award Supports the training of the brightest postdoctoral scientists as they embark upon their research careers This funding enables them to be mentored by established investigators in leading research laboratories across the country Supports dedicated basic scientists and clinicians who conduct research with the potential to significantly impact the prevention diagnosis or treatment of one or more pediatric cancers FOUR YEAR AWARD 231 000 FOUR YEAR AWARD 231 000 Damon Runyon Dale F Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists Damon Runyon PhysicianScientist Training Award Ms Karen D Seitz Bay Area Committee Atherton California I N F Y 2 0 1 7 DA M O N R U N YO N AWA R D E D 1 7 M I L L I O N I N N E W G R A N T S T O 6 3 E XC E P T I O N A L S C I E N T I S T S I N 9 S TAT E S Hillsborough California Executive Chairman Equinix Inc Redwood City California James A Wells PhD Chair Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professor Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology University of California San Francisco San Francisco California Supports a select few Damon Runyon Fellows who have greatly exceeded the Foundation s highest expectations This additional investment in these exceptional individuals catapults their research careers and their impact on cancer TWO YEAR AWARD 100 000 Supports and encourages outstanding recent medical school graduates to pursue cancer research careers by providing them with the opportunity for a protected research training experience under the mentorship of a highly qualified and gifted mentor FOUR YEAR AWARD 460 000 plus up to 100 000 for medical school loan repayment Founder and Managing Director Fusion Partners New York New York 12 13
DA M ON R UN YO N C A N C E R R E S E A R C H FO U N DATI O N In Silicon Valley we have witnessed brilliant young minds with bold ideas change the world Damon Runyon makes this happen for cancer research It identifies top emerging talent and encourages their high risk high reward ideas The payoff has been generations of game changers Damon Runyon Rachleff Innovation Award Committee CHAIR Kenneth W Kinzler PhD Professor of Oncology Director Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics Johns Hopkins University Kimmel Cancer Center Baltimore Maryland Dafna Bar Sagi PhD Senior Vice President Vice Dean for Science Chief Scientific Officer NYU Langone Medical Center New York New York Michael A Caligiuri MD Director Comprehensive Cancer Center CEO James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute JL Marakas Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation Professor of Cancer Research Professor Departments of Internal Medicine and Molecular Virology Immunology and Medical Genetics The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Abby F Dernburg PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology University of California Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley California Todd R Golub MD ANDREW S R AC H L E F F Board Member Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Chief Scientific Officer Director Cancer Program The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Charles A Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Cambridge Massachusetts Tarun M Kapoor PhD Pels Family Professor Head Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology The Rockefeller University New York New York David G Kirsch MD PhD Professor of Radiation Oncology Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University Medical Center Durham North Carolina Richard L Klemke PhD Professor Department of Pathology University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center La Jolla California Lewis L Lanier PhD American Cancer Society Research Professor and Chair Department of Microbiology and Immunology J Michael Bishop MD Distinguished Professor University of California San Francisco Leader Cancer Immunity and Microenvironment Program UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center San Francisco California Joshua T Mendell MD PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor Department of Molecular Biology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas Texas Founding Member Ronald Levy MD Professor of Medicine Division of Oncology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California 14 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Rachleff Innovation Awards CALIFORNIA CONNECTICUT Scott J Dixon PhD Jason M Crawford PhD Exploring the role of a toxic endogenous glycolytic metabolite in tumor suppression and chemotherapy action at Stanford University Stanford Rushika M Perera PhD Mechanisms of cellular transformation at the signal organelle level at the University of California San Francisco Peter J Turnbaugh PhD Nadia s Gift Foundation Innovator The gut microbiome an unexpected contributor to cancer drug resistance at the University of California San Francisco Roberto Zoncu PhD Dissecting and disabling the glucose mTORC1 signaling axis in cancer growth at the University of California Berkeley William Raveis Charitable Fund Innovator Elucidating the bacterial determinants of colorectal cancer at Yale University New Haven M A S SAC H U S E T TS Marcela V Maus MD PhD Next generation CAR T cells for EGFRvIII positive glioblastoma at the Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Benjamin L Martin PhD and David Q Matus PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Innovators Cell cycle regulation of cellular behaviors associated with cancer metastasis at Stony Brook University Stony Brook OHIO Christin E Burd PhD Exploiting mutational specificity to target RAS driven melanoma at The Ohio State University Columbus WISCONSIN N E W YO R K Piero D Dalerba MD Island Outreach Foundation Innovator Using single cell genomics to resolve the molecular identity of cancer stem cells and guide their pharmacological eradication at Columbia University New York Philip A Romero PhD Digital circulating tumor cell detection using scalable molecular logic at the University of Wisconsin Madison Initial Year Damon Runyon Rachleff Innovation Award Stage 2 Funding CALIFORNIA Nicholas T Ingolia PhD Cis regulatory code for the translational control of gene expression at the University of California Berkeley Guillem Pratx PhD Adding a new dimension to flow cytometry radionuclide activated cell sorting at Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford El in nal PhD Reducing cancer susceptibility by attenuating cellular aging at the University of California Berkeley MARYLAND Christopher M Jewell PhD Harnessing intra lymph node controlled release to study and enhance tumor immunity at the University of Maryland College Park 15 WA S H I N G T O N Brian H Shirts MD PhD Participatory genetics for defining genotype phenotype associations of rare cancer variants at the University of Washington Seattle
DA M ON R UN YO N C A N C E R R E S E A R C H FO U N DATI O N In Silicon Valley we have witnessed brilliant young minds with bold ideas change the world Damon Runyon makes this happen for cancer research It identifies top emerging talent and encourages their high risk high reward ideas The payoff has been generations of game changers Damon Runyon Rachleff Innovation Award Committee CHAIR Kenneth W Kinzler PhD Professor of Oncology Director Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics Johns Hopkins University Kimmel Cancer Center Baltimore Maryland Dafna Bar Sagi PhD Senior Vice President Vice Dean for Science Chief Scientific Officer NYU Langone Medical Center New York New York Michael A Caligiuri MD Director Comprehensive Cancer Center CEO James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute JL Marakas Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation Professor of Cancer Research Professor Departments of Internal Medicine and Molecular Virology Immunology and Medical Genetics The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Abby F Dernburg PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology University of California Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley California Todd R Golub MD ANDREW S R AC H L E F F Board Member Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Chief Scientific Officer Director Cancer Program The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Charles A Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Cambridge Massachusetts Tarun M Kapoor PhD Pels Family Professor Head Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology The Rockefeller University New York New York David G Kirsch MD PhD Professor of Radiation Oncology Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University Medical Center Durham North Carolina Richard L Klemke PhD Professor Department of Pathology University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center La Jolla California Lewis L Lanier PhD American Cancer Society Research Professor and Chair Department of Microbiology and Immunology J Michael Bishop MD Distinguished Professor University of California San Francisco Leader Cancer Immunity and Microenvironment Program UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center San Francisco California Joshua T Mendell MD PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor Department of Molecular Biology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas Texas Founding Member Ronald Levy MD Professor of Medicine Division of Oncology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California 14 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Rachleff Innovation Awards CALIFORNIA CONNECTICUT Scott J Dixon PhD Jason M Crawford PhD Exploring the role of a toxic endogenous glycolytic metabolite in tumor suppression and chemotherapy action at Stanford University Stanford Rushika M Perera PhD Mechanisms of cellular transformation at the signal organelle level at the University of California San Francisco Peter J Turnbaugh PhD Nadia s Gift Foundation Innovator The gut microbiome an unexpected contributor to cancer drug resistance at the University of California San Francisco Roberto Zoncu PhD Dissecting and disabling the glucose mTORC1 signaling axis in cancer growth at the University of California Berkeley William Raveis Charitable Fund Innovator Elucidating the bacterial determinants of colorectal cancer at Yale University New Haven M A S SAC H U S E T TS Marcela V Maus MD PhD Next generation CAR T cells for EGFRvIII positive glioblastoma at the Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Benjamin L Martin PhD and David Q Matus PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Innovators Cell cycle regulation of cellular behaviors associated with cancer metastasis at Stony Brook University Stony Brook OHIO Christin E Burd PhD Exploiting mutational specificity to target RAS driven melanoma at The Ohio State University Columbus WISCONSIN N E W YO R K Piero D Dalerba MD Island Outreach Foundation Innovator Using single cell genomics to resolve the molecular identity of cancer stem cells and guide their pharmacological eradication at Columbia University New York Philip A Romero PhD Digital circulating tumor cell detection using scalable molecular logic at the University of Wisconsin Madison Initial Year Damon Runyon Rachleff Innovation Award Stage 2 Funding CALIFORNIA Nicholas T Ingolia PhD Cis regulatory code for the translational control of gene expression at the University of California Berkeley Guillem Pratx PhD Adding a new dimension to flow cytometry radionuclide activated cell sorting at Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford El in nal PhD Reducing cancer susceptibility by attenuating cellular aging at the University of California Berkeley MARYLAND Christopher M Jewell PhD Harnessing intra lymph node controlled release to study and enhance tumor immunity at the University of Maryland College Park 15 WA S H I N G T O N Brian H Shirts MD PhD Participatory genetics for defining genotype phenotype associations of rare cancer variants at the University of Washington Seattle
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award Committee CHAIR Charles L Sawyers MD Chair Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program The Marie Jos e and Henry R Kravis Chair Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Karla V Ballman PhD Chief of the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Department of Healthcare Policy and Research Weill Cornell Medicine New York New York David P Carbone MD PhD Barbara J Bonner Chair in Lung Cancer Research Professor Division of Medical Oncology Director Thoracic Oncology Center Comprehensive Cancer Center The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Nancy E Davidson MD Senior Vice President Director and Full Member Clinical Research Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Head Department of Medicine Division of Medical Oncology University of Washington Seattle Washington S Gail Eckhardt MD Associate Dean of Cancer Programs Director of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institute Professor Department of Medicine Dell Medical School The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas Howard A Fine MD Director Weill Cornell Brain Tumor Center Associate Director of Translational Research Meyer Cancer Center Weill Cornell Medicine New York New York Amato J Giaccia PhD Jack Lulu and Sam Willson Professor in Cancer Biology Director Division of Radiation and Cancer Biology Department of Radiation Oncology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California Carl H June MD Richard W Vague Professor in Immunotherapy Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Director Center for Cellular Immunotherapies Director Translational Research Program Abramson Cancer Center Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania Andrew L Kung MD PhD Chair and Professor Department of Pediatrics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Drew M Pardoll MD PhD Director Cancer Immunology Program Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Abeloff Professorship in Oncology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland 16 Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Awards David R Piwnica Worms MD PhD Professor and Chair Department of Cancer Systems Imaging Deputy Division Head Research Affairs Division of Diagnostic Imaging The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas Kornelia Polyak MD PhD Professor of Medicine Department of Medical Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts Stanley R Riddell MD Full Member Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Clinical Research Division Program in Immunology Professor of Medicine and Oncology University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle Washington Norman E Sharpless MD Director Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research Departments of Medicine and Genetics University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill North Carolina Sandra L Wong MD MS Chair Department of Surgery Senior Vice President of the Surgical Services Line Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Lebanon New Hampshire Founding Member Richard J O Reilly MD Chief Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service Claire L Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York CALIFORNIA Ami S Bhatt MD PhD Applying microbiome based therapeutics in cancer patients with Linda Boxer MD PhD and Michael Snyder PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford F L O R I DA Marco L Davila MD PhD The development and clinical translation of an armored CAR T cell therapy for immune resistant B cell malignancies with Michel Sadelain MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York and Claudio Anasetti MD H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa ILLINOIS Jaehyuk Choi MD PhD Doris Duke Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Identification of genetic basis of altered T cell receptor signaling in cutaneous T cell lymphoma with Stephen D Miller PhD and John D Crispino PhD Northwestern University Chicago M A S SAC H U S E T TS Priscilla K Brastianos MD Investigation of novel targeted therapeutic approaches for brain metastases with Keith T Flaherty MD and Tracy T Batchelor MD Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Geoffrey R Oxnard MD Gordon Family Clinical Investigator Noninvasive genotyping of cell free plasma DNA cfDNA as a tool for guiding personalized lung cancer care with Pasi A Janne MD PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Mark G Shrime MD PhD MPH Cash transfers for cancer surgery in West Africa their health and economic consequences with John G Meara MD DMD MBA Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Boston Eliezer M Van Allen MD Dissecting response to conventional and emerging DNA damage and repair therapies with Geoffrey I Shapiro MD PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston MISSOURI Vivek K Arora MD PhD Defining a targetable oncogenic dyad in bladder cancer with Lee Ratner MD PhD Washington University St Louis Gavin P Dunn MD PhD Characterizing the immunogenic landscape of glioblastoma with John DePersio MD PhD and Robert Schreiber PhD Washington University St Louis Alex Kentsis MD PhD Richard Lumsden Foundation Clinical Investigator Mechanism and function of regulatory signaling in acute myeloid leukemia with Scott A Armstrong MD PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston and Ross L Levine MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York Piro Lito MD PhD Modeling the evolution of resistance to ERK signaling inhibitors at the single cell level with Neal X Rosen MD PhD and Charles M Rudin MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York Heather L Yeo MD Use of mobile applications to evaluate post surgical recovery in aging patients with GI cancer with Manish A Shah MD and Deborah Estrin PhD MS Weill Cornell Medicine New York WA S H I N G T O N N E W YO R K Vinod P Balachandran MD Defining the evolutionary dynamics and antigen potential of neoantigens for human pancreatic cancer immunotherapy with Steven D Leach MD and Jedd M Wolchok MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York Christopher E Barbieri MD PhD MetLife Foundation Clinical Investigator Presurgical trials to target distinct subclasses of localized prostate cancer with Mark A Rubin MD Weill Cornell Medicine New York Adrienne A Boire MD PhD Molecular determinants of leptomeningeal metastasis a translational approach with Joan Massagu PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York 17 Aude G Chapuis MD To specify the requirements of CD8 and CD4 T cells for successful adoptive transfer in solid tumors with Philip D Greenberg MD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle Initial Year
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award Committee CHAIR Charles L Sawyers MD Chair Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program The Marie Jos e and Henry R Kravis Chair Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Karla V Ballman PhD Chief of the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Department of Healthcare Policy and Research Weill Cornell Medicine New York New York David P Carbone MD PhD Barbara J Bonner Chair in Lung Cancer Research Professor Division of Medical Oncology Director Thoracic Oncology Center Comprehensive Cancer Center The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Nancy E Davidson MD Senior Vice President Director and Full Member Clinical Research Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Head Department of Medicine Division of Medical Oncology University of Washington Seattle Washington S Gail Eckhardt MD Associate Dean of Cancer Programs Director of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institute Professor Department of Medicine Dell Medical School The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas Howard A Fine MD Director Weill Cornell Brain Tumor Center Associate Director of Translational Research Meyer Cancer Center Weill Cornell Medicine New York New York Amato J Giaccia PhD Jack Lulu and Sam Willson Professor in Cancer Biology Director Division of Radiation and Cancer Biology Department of Radiation Oncology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California Carl H June MD Richard W Vague Professor in Immunotherapy Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Director Center for Cellular Immunotherapies Director Translational Research Program Abramson Cancer Center Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania Andrew L Kung MD PhD Chair and Professor Department of Pediatrics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Drew M Pardoll MD PhD Director Cancer Immunology Program Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Abeloff Professorship in Oncology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland 16 Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Awards David R Piwnica Worms MD PhD Professor and Chair Department of Cancer Systems Imaging Deputy Division Head Research Affairs Division of Diagnostic Imaging The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas Kornelia Polyak MD PhD Professor of Medicine Department of Medical Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts Stanley R Riddell MD Full Member Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Clinical Research Division Program in Immunology Professor of Medicine and Oncology University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle Washington Norman E Sharpless MD Director Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research Departments of Medicine and Genetics University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill North Carolina Sandra L Wong MD MS Chair Department of Surgery Senior Vice President of the Surgical Services Line Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Lebanon New Hampshire Founding Member Richard J O Reilly MD Chief Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service Claire L Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York CALIFORNIA Ami S Bhatt MD PhD Applying microbiome based therapeutics in cancer patients with Linda Boxer MD PhD and Michael Snyder PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford F L O R I DA Marco L Davila MD PhD The development and clinical translation of an armored CAR T cell therapy for immune resistant B cell malignancies with Michel Sadelain MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York and Claudio Anasetti MD H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa ILLINOIS Jaehyuk Choi MD PhD Doris Duke Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Identification of genetic basis of altered T cell receptor signaling in cutaneous T cell lymphoma with Stephen D Miller PhD and John D Crispino PhD Northwestern University Chicago M A S SAC H U S E T TS Priscilla K Brastianos MD Investigation of novel targeted therapeutic approaches for brain metastases with Keith T Flaherty MD and Tracy T Batchelor MD Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Geoffrey R Oxnard MD Gordon Family Clinical Investigator Noninvasive genotyping of cell free plasma DNA cfDNA as a tool for guiding personalized lung cancer care with Pasi A Janne MD PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Mark G Shrime MD PhD MPH Cash transfers for cancer surgery in West Africa their health and economic consequences with John G Meara MD DMD MBA Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Boston Eliezer M Van Allen MD Dissecting response to conventional and emerging DNA damage and repair therapies with Geoffrey I Shapiro MD PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston MISSOURI Vivek K Arora MD PhD Defining a targetable oncogenic dyad in bladder cancer with Lee Ratner MD PhD Washington University St Louis Gavin P Dunn MD PhD Characterizing the immunogenic landscape of glioblastoma with John DePersio MD PhD and Robert Schreiber PhD Washington University St Louis Alex Kentsis MD PhD Richard Lumsden Foundation Clinical Investigator Mechanism and function of regulatory signaling in acute myeloid leukemia with Scott A Armstrong MD PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston and Ross L Levine MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York Piro Lito MD PhD Modeling the evolution of resistance to ERK signaling inhibitors at the single cell level with Neal X Rosen MD PhD and Charles M Rudin MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York Heather L Yeo MD Use of mobile applications to evaluate post surgical recovery in aging patients with GI cancer with Manish A Shah MD and Deborah Estrin PhD MS Weill Cornell Medicine New York WA S H I N G T O N N E W YO R K Vinod P Balachandran MD Defining the evolutionary dynamics and antigen potential of neoantigens for human pancreatic cancer immunotherapy with Steven D Leach MD and Jedd M Wolchok MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York Christopher E Barbieri MD PhD MetLife Foundation Clinical Investigator Presurgical trials to target distinct subclasses of localized prostate cancer with Mark A Rubin MD Weill Cornell Medicine New York Adrienne A Boire MD PhD Molecular determinants of leptomeningeal metastasis a translational approach with Joan Massagu PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York 17 Aude G Chapuis MD To specify the requirements of CD8 and CD4 T cells for successful adoptive transfer in solid tumors with Philip D Greenberg MD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle Initial Year
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award Continuation Grants Damon Runyon Fellowship Award Committee CHAIR Philippe M Soriano PhD CALIFORNIA MISSOURI TENNESSEE L Elizabeth Budde MD PhD Stephen T Oh MD PhD Christine M Lovly MD PhD Targeting CD123 using chimeric antigen receptor T cells for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia with Stephen J Forman MD FACP City of Hope Duarte M A S SAC H U S E T TS Ann Mullally MD Peptide vaccination to target mutant calreticulin in myeloproliferative neoplasms with Benjamin L Ebert MD and Jerome Ritz MD Brigham and Women s Hospital Boston Targeting aberrant signaling pathways in myeloproliferative neoplasms with Daniel C Link MD Washington University St Louis N E W YO R K Joshua Brody MD Flt3L primed in situ vaccination for low grade lymphoma Phase I II study of intratumoral injection of rhuFlt3L and poly ICLC with lowdose radiotherapy NCT01976585 with Nina Bhardwaj MD PhD and Miriam Merad MD PhD Mount Sinai Hospital New York Developing novel therapeutic strategies for ALK fusion positive lung cancer with David P Carbone MD PhD The Ohio State University Columbus and Pierre P Massion MD Vanderbilt University Nashville TEXAS Deepak Nijhawan MD PhD Developing the anti tumor toxin CD437 into a new cancer therapy with Steve L McKnight PhD and David Johnson MD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas Initial Year Professor of Developmental and Regenerative Biology Professor of Oncological Sciences Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York New York VICE CHAIR Rachel Green PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland Susan L Ackerman PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Steven W Kuffler Chair of Biology Professor Neurobiology Section and Cell and Molecular Medicine University of California San Diego Medical School La Jolla California Greg Barton PhD I am in awe that Damon Runyon has produced so many outstanding scientists whose discoveries have contributed to the founding of dozens of biotech companies and ultimately life saving medications ROBYN COLES Board Member Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation 18 Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis Class of 1936 Chair Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California Berkeley Berkeley California Sharon Y R Dent PhD Professor and J Ralph Meadows Chair Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis Director Science Park Director Center for Cancer Epigenetics The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Smithville Texas Adolfo A Ferrando MD PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology Director WOLF Foundation Leukemia Lymphoma Laboratory Institute for Cancer Genetics Columbia University Medical Center New York New York Jennifer Gerton PhD Investigator Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The University of Kansas School of Medicine Stowers Institute for Medical Research Kansas City Missouri Antonio J Giraldez PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar Fergus F Wallace Professor of Genetics Director of Graduate Studies Yale University School of Medicine New Haven Connecticut Christina Leslie PhD Associate Member and Laboratory Head Computational Biology Program Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Erik A Lundquist PhD Professor Department of Molecular Biosciences University of Kansas Lawrence Kansas Lynne E Maquat PhD Lucy A Godley MD PhD Professor Department of Medicine Section of Hematology and Oncology Cancer Research Center The University of Chicago Medicine Chicago Illinois J Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics School of Medicine and Dentistry Director University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology Chair University of Rochester Graduate Women in Science University of Rochester Rochester New York Richard Gregory PhD Philip A Newmark PhD Professor Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Department of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Harvard Stem Cell Institute The Stem Cell Program at Boston Children s Hospital Boston Massachusetts Howard C Hang PhD Richard E Salomon Family Associate Professor Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis The Rockefeller University New York New York Susan Kaech PhD Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor Department of Immunobiology Yale University School of Medicine New Haven Connecticut 19 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Burnell R Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology Morgridge Institute for Research Department of Zoology University of Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin Joel Rothman PhD Professor and Wilcox Family Chair in Biotechnology University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara California Davide Ruggero PhD Professor Helen Diller Family Endowed Chair in Basic Research University of California San Francisco School of Medicine Member UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center San Francisco California
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award Continuation Grants Damon Runyon Fellowship Award Committee CHAIR Philippe M Soriano PhD CALIFORNIA MISSOURI TENNESSEE L Elizabeth Budde MD PhD Stephen T Oh MD PhD Christine M Lovly MD PhD Targeting CD123 using chimeric antigen receptor T cells for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia with Stephen J Forman MD FACP City of Hope Duarte M A S SAC H U S E T TS Ann Mullally MD Peptide vaccination to target mutant calreticulin in myeloproliferative neoplasms with Benjamin L Ebert MD and Jerome Ritz MD Brigham and Women s Hospital Boston Targeting aberrant signaling pathways in myeloproliferative neoplasms with Daniel C Link MD Washington University St Louis N E W YO R K Joshua Brody MD Flt3L primed in situ vaccination for low grade lymphoma Phase I II study of intratumoral injection of rhuFlt3L and poly ICLC with lowdose radiotherapy NCT01976585 with Nina Bhardwaj MD PhD and Miriam Merad MD PhD Mount Sinai Hospital New York Developing novel therapeutic strategies for ALK fusion positive lung cancer with David P Carbone MD PhD The Ohio State University Columbus and Pierre P Massion MD Vanderbilt University Nashville TEXAS Deepak Nijhawan MD PhD Developing the anti tumor toxin CD437 into a new cancer therapy with Steve L McKnight PhD and David Johnson MD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas Initial Year Professor of Developmental and Regenerative Biology Professor of Oncological Sciences Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York New York VICE CHAIR Rachel Green PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland Susan L Ackerman PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Steven W Kuffler Chair of Biology Professor Neurobiology Section and Cell and Molecular Medicine University of California San Diego Medical School La Jolla California Greg Barton PhD I am in awe that Damon Runyon has produced so many outstanding scientists whose discoveries have contributed to the founding of dozens of biotech companies and ultimately life saving medications ROBYN COLES Board Member Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation 18 Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis Class of 1936 Chair Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California Berkeley Berkeley California Sharon Y R Dent PhD Professor and J Ralph Meadows Chair Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis Director Science Park Director Center for Cancer Epigenetics The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Smithville Texas Adolfo A Ferrando MD PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology Director WOLF Foundation Leukemia Lymphoma Laboratory Institute for Cancer Genetics Columbia University Medical Center New York New York Jennifer Gerton PhD Investigator Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The University of Kansas School of Medicine Stowers Institute for Medical Research Kansas City Missouri Antonio J Giraldez PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar Fergus F Wallace Professor of Genetics Director of Graduate Studies Yale University School of Medicine New Haven Connecticut Christina Leslie PhD Associate Member and Laboratory Head Computational Biology Program Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Erik A Lundquist PhD Professor Department of Molecular Biosciences University of Kansas Lawrence Kansas Lynne E Maquat PhD Lucy A Godley MD PhD Professor Department of Medicine Section of Hematology and Oncology Cancer Research Center The University of Chicago Medicine Chicago Illinois J Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics School of Medicine and Dentistry Director University of Rochester Center for RNA Biology Chair University of Rochester Graduate Women in Science University of Rochester Rochester New York Richard Gregory PhD Philip A Newmark PhD Professor Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Department of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Harvard Stem Cell Institute The Stem Cell Program at Boston Children s Hospital Boston Massachusetts Howard C Hang PhD Richard E Salomon Family Associate Professor Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis The Rockefeller University New York New York Susan Kaech PhD Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor Department of Immunobiology Yale University School of Medicine New Haven Connecticut 19 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Burnell R Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology Morgridge Institute for Research Department of Zoology University of Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin Joel Rothman PhD Professor and Wilcox Family Chair in Biotechnology University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara California Davide Ruggero PhD Professor Helen Diller Family Endowed Chair in Basic Research University of California San Francisco School of Medicine Member UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center San Francisco California
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Julien Sage PhD Professor Department of Pediatrics Hematology Oncology and Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California M Celeste Simon PhD Scientific Director and Investigator Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania Sohail Tavazoie MD PhD Leon Hess Associate Professor Head Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology The Rockefeller University New York New York Matthew G Vander Heiden MD PhD Eisen and Chang Career Development Professor Associate Professor of Biology Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT Cambridge Massachusetts 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Amy Wagers PhD Forst Family Professor Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts Hongtao Yu PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor Department of Pharmacology The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas Texas Damon Runyon Fellowship Awards CALIFORNIA GLADSTONE INSTITUTES Casey A Gifford PhD HHMI Fellow Dissecting the role of pioneer transcription factors in cancer progression with Deepak Srivastava MD SALK INSTITUTE Corina E Antal PhD Robert Black Fellow Stromal reprogramming as a therapeutic approach in pancreatic cancer with Ronald M Evans PhD Jeanine L Van Nostrand PhD Elucidating the AMPK dependent regulation of mTOR signaling in the metabolic checkpoint of tumorigenesis with Reuben J Shaw PhD SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE Liron Bar Peled PhD Lallage Feazel Wall Fellow Identification of cysteine liabilities in NRF2 driven cancers with Benjamin F Cravatt PhD Joseph D Schonhoft PhD Merck Fellow Probing the relation between sequence aggregation and proteotoxicity in cardiac amyloidoses caused by free antibody light chains with Jeffery W Kelly PhD STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Anupam K Chakravarty PhD HHMI Fellow STANFORD UNIVERSITY Investigating the phenomenon of epigenetic inheritance mediated by non amyloid protein aggregates with Daniel F Jarosz PhD Christopher J Cambier PhD Keren I Hilgendorf PhD In vivo characterization of mycobacterial cording with Carolyn R Bertozzi PhD Role of ciliary IGF 1 AKT signaling in ciliogenesis adipogenesis and tissue regeneration with Peter K Jackson PhD HHMI Fellow Ryan A Flynn MD PhD The interplay between cellular metabolism and RNA homeostasis in disease with Carolyn R Bertozzi PhD Jianjin Shi PhD Biochemical and genetic dissection of axon degeneration with Marc Tessier Lavigne PhD and Ben A Barres MD PhD Shaogeng Steven Tang PhD Merck Fellow Toward small molecule inhibitors against human immune checkpoint PD 1 with Peter S Kim PhD 20 Layton Family Fellow Victoria Hung PhD Defining the post translational landscape of ribosomes in control of gene regulation and cell fate with Maria Barna PhD Kathrin Leppek PhD Layton Family Fellow Mechanistic characterization of 5 UTR RNA elements that confer translational specificity to shape vertebrate embryonic development with Maria Barna PhD Yin Liu PhD Layton Family Fellow Sensing lung tumors by pulmonary sensory neurons with Mark A Krasnow MD PhD Rohith K Srivas PhD Longitudinal profiling of hostmicrobiome interactions in obese patients during drastic weight loss with Michael P Snyder PhD Albert G Tsai MD PhD Diagnosis of hematologic malignancies from paucicellular aspirate material using highly multiplexed single cell analysis with Sean C Bendall PhD Leeat Yankielowicz Keren PhD Studying the tumor immune microenvironment in breast cancer using a novel multiplexed imaging platform with Michael R Angelo MD PhD and Edgar G Engleman PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY Gina V Caldas PhD Analysis of CSR function in C elegans embryonic cell division with Abby F Dernburg PhD Fuguo Jiang PhD Merck Fellow Molecular mechanisms of guide RNA target dsDNA binding and PAM recognition by CRISPR Cas9 with Jennifer A Doudna PhD Mandy M Muller PhD HHMI Fellow Widespread RNA destruction and selective preservation during viral infection with Britt Glaunsinger PhD Andrew C Murley PhD HHMI Fellow Cell non autonomous communication of ER stress resistance with Andrew G Dillin PhD Neel H Shah PhD Interrogating ZAP 70 substrate recognition using high throughput mutant screening with John Kuriyan PhD Niranjan Srinivas PhD Mutual repression bistability and switch like decisions during development with Hernan G Garcia PhD and Adam P Arkin PhD David W Taylor PhD Brian J Laidlaw PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO Role of EBI2 in the regulation of lymphocyte migration during viral infection and cancer with Jason G Cyster PhD Structures of the RNA targeting CRISPR Cas complex Cmr with Eva Nogales PhD Andres E Leschziner PhD Understanding the mechanisms of SWI SNF mediated chromatin remodeling and its misregulation in cancer with Richard W Baker PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES Magdalena E Potok PhD HHMI Fellow The relationship between epigenetic gene silencing nuclear architecture and genome stability with Steven E Jacobsen PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO Brittany Adamson PhD HHMI Fellow Comprehensive characterization of the integrated networks that regulate protein homeostasis within the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum with Jonathan S Weissman PhD Vladislav Belyy PhD HHMI Fellow Kara L McKinley PhD Mechanisms and functions of cellular rearrangements in epithelia with Ronald D Vale PhD Lyndsay M Murrow PhD Fate specification of mammary stem cells by cell self sorting with Zev J Gartner PhD Duy P Nguyen PhD Connie and Bob Lurie Fellow Genome editing via an engineered RNA guided nuclease to create cancer genetic models with James A Wells PhD Thomas M Norman PhD Identifying the stochastic determinants of drug resistance with Jonathan S Weissman PhD Erin F Simonds PhD Single cell analysis and targeting of signaling networks in glioblastoma tumor initiating cells with William A Weiss MD PhD Mapping the unfolded protein response signaling network with optogenetic actuators with Peter Walter PhD Lan Wang PhD Kyle G Daniels PhD Andrew L Wolfe PhD Controlling T cell signaling and fate choice using synthetic receptors with Wendell Lim PhD Qi Hu PhD Design of inhibitors of cancerassociated mutant GNAS with Kevan M Shokat PhD Jeffrey A Hussmann PhD Rebecca Ridley Kry Fellow Genome wide measurement of ribosome spacing on individual transcripts with Carol Gross PhD Ankur Jain PhD Formation and function of mRNA processing bodies with Ronald D Vale PhD 21 Conferring organelle specificity to tail anchored proteins with Peter Walter PhD The therapeutic potential and biological effects of targeting oncogenic KRAS with Frank McCormick PhD Jiaxi Wu PhD Mechanism of dendritic cell missing self recognition and migration to activate CD4 T cell responses with Jason G Cyster PhD Yichen Xu PhD Elucidating the role of ER as a novel RNA binding protein and its function in regulating translation with Davide Ruggero PhD
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Julien Sage PhD Professor Department of Pediatrics Hematology Oncology and Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California M Celeste Simon PhD Scientific Director and Investigator Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania Sohail Tavazoie MD PhD Leon Hess Associate Professor Head Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology The Rockefeller University New York New York Matthew G Vander Heiden MD PhD Eisen and Chang Career Development Professor Associate Professor of Biology Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT Cambridge Massachusetts 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Amy Wagers PhD Forst Family Professor Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts Hongtao Yu PhD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor Department of Pharmacology The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas Texas Damon Runyon Fellowship Awards CALIFORNIA GLADSTONE INSTITUTES Casey A Gifford PhD HHMI Fellow Dissecting the role of pioneer transcription factors in cancer progression with Deepak Srivastava MD SALK INSTITUTE Corina E Antal PhD Robert Black Fellow Stromal reprogramming as a therapeutic approach in pancreatic cancer with Ronald M Evans PhD Jeanine L Van Nostrand PhD Elucidating the AMPK dependent regulation of mTOR signaling in the metabolic checkpoint of tumorigenesis with Reuben J Shaw PhD SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE Liron Bar Peled PhD Lallage Feazel Wall Fellow Identification of cysteine liabilities in NRF2 driven cancers with Benjamin F Cravatt PhD Joseph D Schonhoft PhD Merck Fellow Probing the relation between sequence aggregation and proteotoxicity in cardiac amyloidoses caused by free antibody light chains with Jeffery W Kelly PhD STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Anupam K Chakravarty PhD HHMI Fellow STANFORD UNIVERSITY Investigating the phenomenon of epigenetic inheritance mediated by non amyloid protein aggregates with Daniel F Jarosz PhD Christopher J Cambier PhD Keren I Hilgendorf PhD In vivo characterization of mycobacterial cording with Carolyn R Bertozzi PhD Role of ciliary IGF 1 AKT signaling in ciliogenesis adipogenesis and tissue regeneration with Peter K Jackson PhD HHMI Fellow Ryan A Flynn MD PhD The interplay between cellular metabolism and RNA homeostasis in disease with Carolyn R Bertozzi PhD Jianjin Shi PhD Biochemical and genetic dissection of axon degeneration with Marc Tessier Lavigne PhD and Ben A Barres MD PhD Shaogeng Steven Tang PhD Merck Fellow Toward small molecule inhibitors against human immune checkpoint PD 1 with Peter S Kim PhD 20 Layton Family Fellow Victoria Hung PhD Defining the post translational landscape of ribosomes in control of gene regulation and cell fate with Maria Barna PhD Kathrin Leppek PhD Layton Family Fellow Mechanistic characterization of 5 UTR RNA elements that confer translational specificity to shape vertebrate embryonic development with Maria Barna PhD Yin Liu PhD Layton Family Fellow Sensing lung tumors by pulmonary sensory neurons with Mark A Krasnow MD PhD Rohith K Srivas PhD Longitudinal profiling of hostmicrobiome interactions in obese patients during drastic weight loss with Michael P Snyder PhD Albert G Tsai MD PhD Diagnosis of hematologic malignancies from paucicellular aspirate material using highly multiplexed single cell analysis with Sean C Bendall PhD Leeat Yankielowicz Keren PhD Studying the tumor immune microenvironment in breast cancer using a novel multiplexed imaging platform with Michael R Angelo MD PhD and Edgar G Engleman PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY Gina V Caldas PhD Analysis of CSR function in C elegans embryonic cell division with Abby F Dernburg PhD Fuguo Jiang PhD Merck Fellow Molecular mechanisms of guide RNA target dsDNA binding and PAM recognition by CRISPR Cas9 with Jennifer A Doudna PhD Mandy M Muller PhD HHMI Fellow Widespread RNA destruction and selective preservation during viral infection with Britt Glaunsinger PhD Andrew C Murley PhD HHMI Fellow Cell non autonomous communication of ER stress resistance with Andrew G Dillin PhD Neel H Shah PhD Interrogating ZAP 70 substrate recognition using high throughput mutant screening with John Kuriyan PhD Niranjan Srinivas PhD Mutual repression bistability and switch like decisions during development with Hernan G Garcia PhD and Adam P Arkin PhD David W Taylor PhD Brian J Laidlaw PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO Role of EBI2 in the regulation of lymphocyte migration during viral infection and cancer with Jason G Cyster PhD Structures of the RNA targeting CRISPR Cas complex Cmr with Eva Nogales PhD Andres E Leschziner PhD Understanding the mechanisms of SWI SNF mediated chromatin remodeling and its misregulation in cancer with Richard W Baker PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES Magdalena E Potok PhD HHMI Fellow The relationship between epigenetic gene silencing nuclear architecture and genome stability with Steven E Jacobsen PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO Brittany Adamson PhD HHMI Fellow Comprehensive characterization of the integrated networks that regulate protein homeostasis within the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum with Jonathan S Weissman PhD Vladislav Belyy PhD HHMI Fellow Kara L McKinley PhD Mechanisms and functions of cellular rearrangements in epithelia with Ronald D Vale PhD Lyndsay M Murrow PhD Fate specification of mammary stem cells by cell self sorting with Zev J Gartner PhD Duy P Nguyen PhD Connie and Bob Lurie Fellow Genome editing via an engineered RNA guided nuclease to create cancer genetic models with James A Wells PhD Thomas M Norman PhD Identifying the stochastic determinants of drug resistance with Jonathan S Weissman PhD Erin F Simonds PhD Single cell analysis and targeting of signaling networks in glioblastoma tumor initiating cells with William A Weiss MD PhD Mapping the unfolded protein response signaling network with optogenetic actuators with Peter Walter PhD Lan Wang PhD Kyle G Daniels PhD Andrew L Wolfe PhD Controlling T cell signaling and fate choice using synthetic receptors with Wendell Lim PhD Qi Hu PhD Design of inhibitors of cancerassociated mutant GNAS with Kevan M Shokat PhD Jeffrey A Hussmann PhD Rebecca Ridley Kry Fellow Genome wide measurement of ribosome spacing on individual transcripts with Carol Gross PhD Ankur Jain PhD Formation and function of mRNA processing bodies with Ronald D Vale PhD 21 Conferring organelle specificity to tail anchored proteins with Peter Walter PhD The therapeutic potential and biological effects of targeting oncogenic KRAS with Frank McCormick PhD Jiaxi Wu PhD Mechanism of dendritic cell missing self recognition and migration to activate CD4 T cell responses with Jason G Cyster PhD Yichen Xu PhD Elucidating the role of ER as a novel RNA binding protein and its function in regulating translation with Davide Ruggero PhD
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Ziyang Zhang PhD HHMI Fellow Controlling the activity of bispecific T cell engagers with a chemically cleavable molecular switch with Kevan M Shokat PhD Xin Zhou PhD Merck Fellow Engineering Glue domains to enable cryo EM study of small cancer protein structures with James A Wells PhD CONNECTICUT YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Zhuobin Liang PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellow Mechanistic dissection of the Fanconi anemia pathway in coordinating R loop processing and DNA repair with Patrick Sung DPhil and Gary M Kupfer MD Seyed Fakhreddin Torabi PhD Robert Black Fellow Evolution of triplex forming RNAs from random sequences a search for additional MALAT1 like triplex motifs with Joan A Steitz PhD MARYLAND M A S SAC H U S E T TS JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL Xintong Dong PhD HHMI Fellow Investigating ligand receptor interactions between defensins and mrgprs in cutaneous inflammation and wound healing with Xinzhong Dong PhD Daniel H Goldman PhD Merck Fellow Elucidating the role of the exon junction complex in regulating translation of spliced mRNA with Rachel Green PhD Vu Quang Nguyen PhD Role of chromatin organization in dynamics of transcription initiation with Carl Wu PhD Hanjing Peng PhD Targeting the proteasome using a hybrid combinatorial rapafucin library with Jun O Liu PhD Evan J Worden PhD THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO The mechanistic basis of crosstalk between histone H2B ubiquitylation and H3K79 methylation with Cynthia Wolberger PhD John D Leonard PhD Boris Zinshteyn PhD ILLINOIS Robert Black Fellow Self antigen recognition by regulatory T cells with Erin J Adams PhD and Peter A Savage PhD Sigrid Nachtergaele PhD HHMI Fellow The dynamic N1 methyladenosine methylome in eukaryotic mRNA with Chuan He PhD UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Daniel J Blair PhD An automated small molecule synthesizer for the discovery of new anti cancer agents with Martin D Burke MD PhD Sarah Z Tasker PhD HHMI Fellow Mechanisms of splicing independent nonsense mediated mRNA decay with Rachel Green PhD NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Danfeng Cai PhD Protein crowding and protein folding landscapes as predictors of healthy and diseased cell states with Jennifer Lippincott Schwartz PhD Daniel E Webster PhD Philip O Bryan Montgomery Jr MD Fellow Identification and analysis of LncRNAs regulating diffuse large B cell lymphoma with Louis M Staudt MD PhD HHMI Fellow Synthesis and evaluation of a collection of complex molecules biased for penetration of the blood brain barrier with Paul J Hergenrother PhD Megan L Insco MD PhD Investigating transcriptional cyclin dependent kinases as novel melanoma drug targets with Len I Zon MD Funding from Damon Runyon gives these young scientists the ability to pursue their research with dedication BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL W I L L I A M M R AV E I S J R Board Member Emma Watson PhD Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Suzanne and Bob Wright Fellow Metabolic stress response exploring transcript level regulation of metabolic feedback with Stephen J Elledge PhD Timothy D Martin PhD HARVARD T H CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Investigating the role of aneuploidy and haploinsufficiency in driving tumorigenesis with Stephen J Elledge PhD Caitlin A Brennan PhD Marion Abbe Fellow DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE Dennis L Buckley PhD Merck Fellow Dennis and Marsha Dammerman Fellow Mechanisms underlying Fusobacterium nucleatum driven colorectal cancer with Wendy S Garrett MD PhD Jeeyun Chung PhD Development of selective bromodomain inhibitors from dual bromodomain kinase inhibitors for the treatment of neuroblastoma with Nathanael S Gray MD Unraveling the cellular mechanism of lipid droplet biogenesis with Tobias C Walther PhD and Robert V Farese Jr MD Phillip A Dumesic MD PhD Ryan D Baldridge PhD Identification of muscle secreted factors responsible for local and systemic effects of exercise with Bruce M Spiegelman PhD Tikvah K Hayes PhD David M Livingston MD Fellow HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Fraternal Order of Eagles Fellow Enhancing anti tumor immunity via pharmacological inhibition of kinases with Nathanael S Gray PhD Deepshika Ramanan PhD Identifying functions of regulatory T cell subsets in intestinal inflammation and colorectal cancer with Christophe Benoist MD PhD Nikhil Sharma PhD Replicative helicase bypass of bulky DNA adducts with Johannes C Walter PhD Anne E Dodson PhD Robert Black Fellow Investigating the molecular determinants of blood brain barrier heterogeneity with Chenghua Gu PhD Justin A Bosch PhD Neil T Umbreit PhD Eric Wang PhD Sarah J Pfau PhD Neural control of breathing with Stephen Liberles PhD Systematic genomic and functional analysis of small cell lung cancer with Matthew L Meyerson MD PhD Elucidating the mechanism of chromosome bridge resolution with David S Pellman MD Molecular and cellular mechanisms of transcytosis regulation in blood brain barrier function with Chenghua Gu PhD Investigating the mechanism of retro translocation by ERAD with Tom A Rapoport PhD Elucidating the biological functions of polypeptide transfer between animal cells with Norbert Perrimon PhD HHMI Fellow Natasha M O Brown PhD Transgenerational inheritance of structure based infections with Scott G Kennedy PhD Ivana Gasic DrSc Merck Fellow Molecular elucidation of the interphase microtubule integrity response MIR with Timothy J Mitchison PhD Justin L Sparks PhD Benjamin M Stinson PhD Mechanism of DNA processing during non homologous end joining with Johannes C Walter PhD and Joseph L Loparo PhD Hume A Stroud PhD HHMI Fellow Understanding the mechanism and roles of changes in chromatin composition in the brain with Michael E Greenberg PhD Tony Yu Chen Tsai MD PhD Kenneth G and Elaine A Langone Fellow Cell sorting in zebrafish neural tube development with Sean G Megason PhD 22 23 Thomas S Vierbuchen PhD HHMI Fellow Understanding the developmental programming and function of the enhancers that control activityregulated transcription in the mammalian cortex with Michael E Greenberg PhD HARVARD UNIVERSITY Philip B Abitua PhD Functional characterization of signaling molecules during zebrafish embryogenesis with Alexander F Schier PhD Brian J Beliveau PhD HHMI Fellow Decoding Polycomb mediated gene regulation in single cells with singlemolecule super resolution imaging and synthetic biology with Peng Yin PhD Monica E McCallum PhD Understanding alanosine biosynthesis to discover new cancer chemotherapeutics with Emily P Balskus PhD Sungwook Woo PhD HHMI Fellow Crystal free crystallography using programmable 3D DNA crystal frameworks with Peng Yin PhD MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL Kai Mao PhD Mechanisms of xenobiotic surveillance and regulation with Gary B Ruvkun PhD
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Ziyang Zhang PhD HHMI Fellow Controlling the activity of bispecific T cell engagers with a chemically cleavable molecular switch with Kevan M Shokat PhD Xin Zhou PhD Merck Fellow Engineering Glue domains to enable cryo EM study of small cancer protein structures with James A Wells PhD CONNECTICUT YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Zhuobin Liang PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellow Mechanistic dissection of the Fanconi anemia pathway in coordinating R loop processing and DNA repair with Patrick Sung DPhil and Gary M Kupfer MD Seyed Fakhreddin Torabi PhD Robert Black Fellow Evolution of triplex forming RNAs from random sequences a search for additional MALAT1 like triplex motifs with Joan A Steitz PhD MARYLAND M A S SAC H U S E T TS JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL Xintong Dong PhD HHMI Fellow Investigating ligand receptor interactions between defensins and mrgprs in cutaneous inflammation and wound healing with Xinzhong Dong PhD Daniel H Goldman PhD Merck Fellow Elucidating the role of the exon junction complex in regulating translation of spliced mRNA with Rachel Green PhD Vu Quang Nguyen PhD Role of chromatin organization in dynamics of transcription initiation with Carl Wu PhD Hanjing Peng PhD Targeting the proteasome using a hybrid combinatorial rapafucin library with Jun O Liu PhD Evan J Worden PhD THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO The mechanistic basis of crosstalk between histone H2B ubiquitylation and H3K79 methylation with Cynthia Wolberger PhD John D Leonard PhD Boris Zinshteyn PhD ILLINOIS Robert Black Fellow Self antigen recognition by regulatory T cells with Erin J Adams PhD and Peter A Savage PhD Sigrid Nachtergaele PhD HHMI Fellow The dynamic N1 methyladenosine methylome in eukaryotic mRNA with Chuan He PhD UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Daniel J Blair PhD An automated small molecule synthesizer for the discovery of new anti cancer agents with Martin D Burke MD PhD Sarah Z Tasker PhD HHMI Fellow Mechanisms of splicing independent nonsense mediated mRNA decay with Rachel Green PhD NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Danfeng Cai PhD Protein crowding and protein folding landscapes as predictors of healthy and diseased cell states with Jennifer Lippincott Schwartz PhD Daniel E Webster PhD Philip O Bryan Montgomery Jr MD Fellow Identification and analysis of LncRNAs regulating diffuse large B cell lymphoma with Louis M Staudt MD PhD HHMI Fellow Synthesis and evaluation of a collection of complex molecules biased for penetration of the blood brain barrier with Paul J Hergenrother PhD Megan L Insco MD PhD Investigating transcriptional cyclin dependent kinases as novel melanoma drug targets with Len I Zon MD Funding from Damon Runyon gives these young scientists the ability to pursue their research with dedication BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL W I L L I A M M R AV E I S J R Board Member Emma Watson PhD Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Suzanne and Bob Wright Fellow Metabolic stress response exploring transcript level regulation of metabolic feedback with Stephen J Elledge PhD Timothy D Martin PhD HARVARD T H CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Investigating the role of aneuploidy and haploinsufficiency in driving tumorigenesis with Stephen J Elledge PhD Caitlin A Brennan PhD Marion Abbe Fellow DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE Dennis L Buckley PhD Merck Fellow Dennis and Marsha Dammerman Fellow Mechanisms underlying Fusobacterium nucleatum driven colorectal cancer with Wendy S Garrett MD PhD Jeeyun Chung PhD Development of selective bromodomain inhibitors from dual bromodomain kinase inhibitors for the treatment of neuroblastoma with Nathanael S Gray MD Unraveling the cellular mechanism of lipid droplet biogenesis with Tobias C Walther PhD and Robert V Farese Jr MD Phillip A Dumesic MD PhD Ryan D Baldridge PhD Identification of muscle secreted factors responsible for local and systemic effects of exercise with Bruce M Spiegelman PhD Tikvah K Hayes PhD David M Livingston MD Fellow HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Fraternal Order of Eagles Fellow Enhancing anti tumor immunity via pharmacological inhibition of kinases with Nathanael S Gray PhD Deepshika Ramanan PhD Identifying functions of regulatory T cell subsets in intestinal inflammation and colorectal cancer with Christophe Benoist MD PhD Nikhil Sharma PhD Replicative helicase bypass of bulky DNA adducts with Johannes C Walter PhD Anne E Dodson PhD Robert Black Fellow Investigating the molecular determinants of blood brain barrier heterogeneity with Chenghua Gu PhD Justin A Bosch PhD Neil T Umbreit PhD Eric Wang PhD Sarah J Pfau PhD Neural control of breathing with Stephen Liberles PhD Systematic genomic and functional analysis of small cell lung cancer with Matthew L Meyerson MD PhD Elucidating the mechanism of chromosome bridge resolution with David S Pellman MD Molecular and cellular mechanisms of transcytosis regulation in blood brain barrier function with Chenghua Gu PhD Investigating the mechanism of retro translocation by ERAD with Tom A Rapoport PhD Elucidating the biological functions of polypeptide transfer between animal cells with Norbert Perrimon PhD HHMI Fellow Natasha M O Brown PhD Transgenerational inheritance of structure based infections with Scott G Kennedy PhD Ivana Gasic DrSc Merck Fellow Molecular elucidation of the interphase microtubule integrity response MIR with Timothy J Mitchison PhD Justin L Sparks PhD Benjamin M Stinson PhD Mechanism of DNA processing during non homologous end joining with Johannes C Walter PhD and Joseph L Loparo PhD Hume A Stroud PhD HHMI Fellow Understanding the mechanism and roles of changes in chromatin composition in the brain with Michael E Greenberg PhD Tony Yu Chen Tsai MD PhD Kenneth G and Elaine A Langone Fellow Cell sorting in zebrafish neural tube development with Sean G Megason PhD 22 23 Thomas S Vierbuchen PhD HHMI Fellow Understanding the developmental programming and function of the enhancers that control activityregulated transcription in the mammalian cortex with Michael E Greenberg PhD HARVARD UNIVERSITY Philip B Abitua PhD Functional characterization of signaling molecules during zebrafish embryogenesis with Alexander F Schier PhD Brian J Beliveau PhD HHMI Fellow Decoding Polycomb mediated gene regulation in single cells with singlemolecule super resolution imaging and synthetic biology with Peng Yin PhD Monica E McCallum PhD Understanding alanosine biosynthesis to discover new cancer chemotherapeutics with Emily P Balskus PhD Sungwook Woo PhD HHMI Fellow Crystal free crystallography using programmable 3D DNA crystal frameworks with Peng Yin PhD MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL Kai Mao PhD Mechanisms of xenobiotic surveillance and regulation with Gary B Ruvkun PhD
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Kurt J Warnoff PhD Molybdenum cofactor biosynthetic enzymes modulate miRNA biology and development with Gary B Ruvkun PhD Iva Tchasovnikarova PhD Deciphering the role of chromatin remodeling in epigenetic repression by the HUSH complex with Robert E Kingston PhD MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Alexander M Jaeger PhD HHMI Fellow Investigating the function of HSF1 in tumor evolution with Tyler E Jacks PhD Lindsay M LaFave PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellow Investigating epigenetic mechanisms of transformation in SWI SNF mutant non small cell lung cancer with Tyler E Jacks PhD Allison N Lau PhD Robert Black Fellow Understanding metabolic heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer with Matthew G Vander Heiden MD PhD Evan C Lien PhD Impact of diet on tumor metabolism and progression with Matthew G Vander Heiden MD PhD 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Jose M Ordovas Montanes PhD MISSOURI Single cell genomic approaches for tracing the contribution of inflammation to human colon cancer with Alex K Shalek PhD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HHMI Fellow Chenxi Tian PhD Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fellow Understanding the roles of extracellular matrix proteins in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma progression with Richard O Hynes PhD Peter M Westcott PhD Exploiting endogenous mutational processes in cancer to enhance response to immunotherapy with Tyler E Jacks PhD Darryl A Wesener PhD Synthetic food particles for studying human gut microbiota function with Jeffrey I Gordon MD NEW JERSEY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Andrew A Bridges PhD HHMI Fellow Bacterial cell fates the role of quorum sensing in biofilm patterning with Bonnie L Bassler PhD Antony J Burton PhD WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH Sculpting chromatin architecture in live cells using protein chemistry with Tom W Muir PhD Laura Blanton PhD N E W YO R K Lallage Feazel Wall Fellow The impact of sex chromosome constitution on immune cell gene expression and function with David C Page MD Nora Kory PhD HHMI Fellow Identifying new components of mitochondrial one carbon metabolism with David M Sabatini MD PhD Benjamin R Sabari PhD Investigating the role of aberrant genome structuring in T ALL with Richard A Young PhD COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY J Brooks Crickard PhD Visualizing the strand invasion during homologous recombination on the single molecule level with Eric C Green PhD CORNELL UNIVERSITY Sudeep Banjade PhD HHMI Fellow Division of labor in ESCRT III proteins during polymer assembly and membrane remodeling with Scott D Emr PhD The connections made through my fellowship have been invaluable for fostering collaborations and gaining career development support L I N D S AY M L A FAV E P h D Damon Runyon Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology 24 MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER Harihar Basnet PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellow Identifying determinants of latency in brain metastatic breast cancer cells with Joan Massagu PhD Bryan C King PhD Berger Foundation Fellow AMPK induced catabolism of extracellular proteins a novel survival mechanism for nutrientdeprived cancer cells with Craig B Thompson MD William Razzell PhD HHMI Fellow Shruti Naik PhD FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER Alexey A Soshnev MD PhD HHMI Fellow HHMI Fellow The study of linker histone H1 in transcriptional regulation and genome organization with C David Allis PhD Jonathan R Whicher PhD GE Asset Management Fellow Structure and mechanism of the voltage gated potassium channel hEag1 with Roderick MacKinnon MD The role of tension in Hippo pathway signaling with Jennifer A Zallen PhD Linghe Xi PhD Aaron D Viny MD MS WNT signaling and fate specification of normal versus tumorigenic stem cells with Elaine V Fuchs PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellow Role of the Cohesin complex in oncogenic transformation of AML with Ross L Levine MD NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Lacy J Barton PhD Mechanisms of directed cell migration in a complex in vivo environment with Ruth Lehmann PhD June Yong Lee PhD HHMI Fellow Investigation of potential roles of serum amyloid A in peripheral Th17 cell pathogenicity with Dan R Littman MD PhD Dale F and Betty Ann Frey Fellow TEXAS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER Lindsay B Case PhD Robert Black Fellow Regulation of integrin clustering on supported lipid bilayers with Michael K Rosen PhD Elise C Jeffery PhD Characterizing a new hematopoietic stem cell niche factor with Sean J Morrison PhD U TA H THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Chao Lu PhD Alesia N McKeown PhD Understanding the mechanism of histone H3 mutation in cancer initiation and maintenance with C David Allis PhD Novel roles for retrogenes in host immunity with Nels C Elde PhD and Cedric Feschotte PhD Kandarian Family Fellow Rand M Miller PhD Illini 4000 Fellow Chemistry based dissection of multidrug resistance efflux pump mechanisms in living cells with Tarun M Kapoor PhD WA S H I N G T O N Immune and epidermal stem cell cross talk in skin inflammation with Elaine V Fuchs PhD HHMI Fellow VIRGINIA Tera C Levin PhD Master microbial manipulators how Wolbachia subvert Drosophila development with Harmit S Malik PhD Matthew P Miller PhD HHMI Fellow Regulation of kinetochore assembly with Susan Biggins PhD Antoine Molaro PhD Evolutionary and functional consequences of genetic conflicts between KRAB Zinc Fingers and endogenous retroviruses in primate genomes with Harmit S Malik PhD Jeremy I Roop PhD Fayez Sarofim Fellow Defining virus host co evolutionary dynamics that underlie the unusually broad HIV neutralizing antibody response in infants with Julie M Overbaugh PhD Alistair B Russell PhD Merck Fellow Impact of heterogeneity on the cellular recognition of influenza infection with Jesse D Bloom PhD Ying Qi Shirleen Soh PhD Mapping paths and mechanisms of virus host adaptation with Jesse D Bloom PhD UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Ronald J Hause PhD Function dissection of the effects of variants of uncertain significance in TPMT in response to thiopurine anticancer agents with Jay A Shendure MD PhD Yi Yin PhD HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE JANELIA RESEARCH CAMPUS Global analysis of DNA break repair by single cell sequencing with Jay A Shendure MD PhD Albert Tsai PhD Initial Year Physician Scientist Single molecule imaging of transcription factors binding dynamics in Drosophila embryos with Robert H Singer PhD 25
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Kurt J Warnoff PhD Molybdenum cofactor biosynthetic enzymes modulate miRNA biology and development with Gary B Ruvkun PhD Iva Tchasovnikarova PhD Deciphering the role of chromatin remodeling in epigenetic repression by the HUSH complex with Robert E Kingston PhD MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Alexander M Jaeger PhD HHMI Fellow Investigating the function of HSF1 in tumor evolution with Tyler E Jacks PhD Lindsay M LaFave PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellow Investigating epigenetic mechanisms of transformation in SWI SNF mutant non small cell lung cancer with Tyler E Jacks PhD Allison N Lau PhD Robert Black Fellow Understanding metabolic heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer with Matthew G Vander Heiden MD PhD Evan C Lien PhD Impact of diet on tumor metabolism and progression with Matthew G Vander Heiden MD PhD 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Jose M Ordovas Montanes PhD MISSOURI Single cell genomic approaches for tracing the contribution of inflammation to human colon cancer with Alex K Shalek PhD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HHMI Fellow Chenxi Tian PhD Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fellow Understanding the roles of extracellular matrix proteins in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma progression with Richard O Hynes PhD Peter M Westcott PhD Exploiting endogenous mutational processes in cancer to enhance response to immunotherapy with Tyler E Jacks PhD Darryl A Wesener PhD Synthetic food particles for studying human gut microbiota function with Jeffrey I Gordon MD NEW JERSEY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Andrew A Bridges PhD HHMI Fellow Bacterial cell fates the role of quorum sensing in biofilm patterning with Bonnie L Bassler PhD Antony J Burton PhD WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH Sculpting chromatin architecture in live cells using protein chemistry with Tom W Muir PhD Laura Blanton PhD N E W YO R K Lallage Feazel Wall Fellow The impact of sex chromosome constitution on immune cell gene expression and function with David C Page MD Nora Kory PhD HHMI Fellow Identifying new components of mitochondrial one carbon metabolism with David M Sabatini MD PhD Benjamin R Sabari PhD Investigating the role of aberrant genome structuring in T ALL with Richard A Young PhD COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY J Brooks Crickard PhD Visualizing the strand invasion during homologous recombination on the single molecule level with Eric C Green PhD CORNELL UNIVERSITY Sudeep Banjade PhD HHMI Fellow Division of labor in ESCRT III proteins during polymer assembly and membrane remodeling with Scott D Emr PhD The connections made through my fellowship have been invaluable for fostering collaborations and gaining career development support L I N D S AY M L A FAV E P h D Damon Runyon Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology 24 MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER Harihar Basnet PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellow Identifying determinants of latency in brain metastatic breast cancer cells with Joan Massagu PhD Bryan C King PhD Berger Foundation Fellow AMPK induced catabolism of extracellular proteins a novel survival mechanism for nutrientdeprived cancer cells with Craig B Thompson MD William Razzell PhD HHMI Fellow Shruti Naik PhD FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER Alexey A Soshnev MD PhD HHMI Fellow HHMI Fellow The study of linker histone H1 in transcriptional regulation and genome organization with C David Allis PhD Jonathan R Whicher PhD GE Asset Management Fellow Structure and mechanism of the voltage gated potassium channel hEag1 with Roderick MacKinnon MD The role of tension in Hippo pathway signaling with Jennifer A Zallen PhD Linghe Xi PhD Aaron D Viny MD MS WNT signaling and fate specification of normal versus tumorigenic stem cells with Elaine V Fuchs PhD William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellow Role of the Cohesin complex in oncogenic transformation of AML with Ross L Levine MD NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Lacy J Barton PhD Mechanisms of directed cell migration in a complex in vivo environment with Ruth Lehmann PhD June Yong Lee PhD HHMI Fellow Investigation of potential roles of serum amyloid A in peripheral Th17 cell pathogenicity with Dan R Littman MD PhD Dale F and Betty Ann Frey Fellow TEXAS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER Lindsay B Case PhD Robert Black Fellow Regulation of integrin clustering on supported lipid bilayers with Michael K Rosen PhD Elise C Jeffery PhD Characterizing a new hematopoietic stem cell niche factor with Sean J Morrison PhD U TA H THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Chao Lu PhD Alesia N McKeown PhD Understanding the mechanism of histone H3 mutation in cancer initiation and maintenance with C David Allis PhD Novel roles for retrogenes in host immunity with Nels C Elde PhD and Cedric Feschotte PhD Kandarian Family Fellow Rand M Miller PhD Illini 4000 Fellow Chemistry based dissection of multidrug resistance efflux pump mechanisms in living cells with Tarun M Kapoor PhD WA S H I N G T O N Immune and epidermal stem cell cross talk in skin inflammation with Elaine V Fuchs PhD HHMI Fellow VIRGINIA Tera C Levin PhD Master microbial manipulators how Wolbachia subvert Drosophila development with Harmit S Malik PhD Matthew P Miller PhD HHMI Fellow Regulation of kinetochore assembly with Susan Biggins PhD Antoine Molaro PhD Evolutionary and functional consequences of genetic conflicts between KRAB Zinc Fingers and endogenous retroviruses in primate genomes with Harmit S Malik PhD Jeremy I Roop PhD Fayez Sarofim Fellow Defining virus host co evolutionary dynamics that underlie the unusually broad HIV neutralizing antibody response in infants with Julie M Overbaugh PhD Alistair B Russell PhD Merck Fellow Impact of heterogeneity on the cellular recognition of influenza infection with Jesse D Bloom PhD Ying Qi Shirleen Soh PhD Mapping paths and mechanisms of virus host adaptation with Jesse D Bloom PhD UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Ronald J Hause PhD Function dissection of the effects of variants of uncertain significance in TPMT in response to thiopurine anticancer agents with Jay A Shendure MD PhD Yi Yin PhD HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE JANELIA RESEARCH CAMPUS Global analysis of DNA break repair by single cell sequencing with Jay A Shendure MD PhD Albert Tsai PhD Initial Year Physician Scientist Single molecule imaging of transcription factors binding dynamics in Drosophila embryos with Robert H Singer PhD 25
DA M ON R UN YO N C A N C E R R E S E A R C H FO U N DATI O N The Damon Runyon Sohn Fellowship Award allows young scientists to pursue their career aspirations to impact children with cancer It also helps draw trainees from other disciplines to the cause of pediatric oncology he award is T unique because of its prestige funding the best of the best the level of support and critically the length of support Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award Committee CHAIR Lisa R Diller MD 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Awards CALIFORNIA zlem Aksoy PhD Chair and Professor Department of Pediatrics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Chief Medical Officer Dana Farber Children s Hospital Cancer Center Clinical Director Pediatric Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts Understanding the role of translational control in humanized mouse models for medulloblastoma with Davide Ruggero PhD University of California San Francisco San Francisco Scott A Armstrong MD PhD Adolfo A Ferrando MD PhD Zhipeng Lu PhD Andrew L Kung MD PhD Chair Department of Pediatric Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Institute David G Nathan Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Associate Chief of the Division of Hematology Oncology at Boston Children s Hospital Boston Massachusetts Patrick A Brown MD Director Pediatric Leukemia and Lymphoma Program Associate Professor Department of Oncology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland William L Carroll MD Julie and Edward J Minskoff Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Pathology Chief Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center New York New York Peter D Cole MD Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center Bronx New York Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology Director WOLF Foundation Leukemia Lymphoma Laboratory Institute for Cancer Genetics Columbia University Medical Center New York New York Yael P Moss MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Division of Oncology Neuroblastoma Developmental Therapeutics Program Children s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia Pennsylvania James M Olson MD PhD Member Division of Clinical Research Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle Washington Martine F Roussel PhD Member and Endowed Chair in Molecular Oncogenesis Co Director Cancer Center Signal Transduction Program Department of Tumor Cell Biology and Genetics Adjunct Professor The University of Tennessee Health Science Center St Jude Children s Research Hospital Memphis Tennessee Layton Family Fellow of the Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award Elucidating the role of dynamic RNA structures in cancer with Howard Y Chang MD PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford Kathryn R Taylor PhD The effect of neuronal activity on pediatric glioma invasion with Michelle L Monje MD PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford MARYLAND Stacy L Cooper MD The Cebpa 37kb enhancer is a critical target of transformation in acute myeloid leukemia with Alan D Friedman MD Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Michael A Koldobskiy MD PhD DNA methylation stochasticity in pediatric pre B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with Andrew P Feinberg MD Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Cara A Rabik MD PhD Marissa Rashkovan PhD M A S SAC H U S E T TS Yadira M Soto Feliciano PhD Determination of the role of WT1 in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis with Patrick A Brown MD Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Amanda Balboni Iniguez PhD Targeting the EWS FLI oncoprotein in Ewing sarcoma with CDK12 13 inhibitors with Kimberly Stegmaier MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Mark W Zimmerman PhD Elucidating the mechanism of CHD5 mediated tumor suppression in neuroblastoma with A Thomas Look MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Dissecting the role of Menin in acute leukemia with C David Allis PhD The Rockefeller University New York Ly P Vu PhD Uncovering the role of RNA binding protein Syncrip in acute myeloid leukemia AML with Michael G Kharas PhD and Ross L Levine MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York P E N N S Y LVA N I A Tamara P Miller MD MICHIGAN Challice L Bonifant MD PhD Dual antigen targeting by ENG T cells as improved anti AML therapy with Pavan Reddy MD University of Michigan Ann Arbor Improving adverse event reporting on cooperative oncology group trials with Richard Aplenc MD PhD Children s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia TENNESSEE N E W YO R K Robert L Bowman PhD Interrogating the subclonal architecture and functional contribution of mutation order in FLT3 ITD mutant AML with Ross L Levine MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York ANDREW L KU N G M D P h D Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award Committee Chair Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 26 Targeting metabolic vulnerabilities in ETP ALL with Adolfo A Ferrando MD PhD Columbia University Medical Center New York 27 David W Woessner PhD Discovery of new driver alterations in childhood ALL with Charles G Mullighan MBBS MD St Jude Children s Research Hospital Memphis Initial Year Physician Scientist
DA M ON R UN YO N C A N C E R R E S E A R C H FO U N DATI O N The Damon Runyon Sohn Fellowship Award allows young scientists to pursue their career aspirations to impact children with cancer It also helps draw trainees from other disciplines to the cause of pediatric oncology he award is T unique because of its prestige funding the best of the best the level of support and critically the length of support Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award Committee CHAIR Lisa R Diller MD 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Awards CALIFORNIA zlem Aksoy PhD Chair and Professor Department of Pediatrics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Chief Medical Officer Dana Farber Children s Hospital Cancer Center Clinical Director Pediatric Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts Understanding the role of translational control in humanized mouse models for medulloblastoma with Davide Ruggero PhD University of California San Francisco San Francisco Scott A Armstrong MD PhD Adolfo A Ferrando MD PhD Zhipeng Lu PhD Andrew L Kung MD PhD Chair Department of Pediatric Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Institute David G Nathan Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Associate Chief of the Division of Hematology Oncology at Boston Children s Hospital Boston Massachusetts Patrick A Brown MD Director Pediatric Leukemia and Lymphoma Program Associate Professor Department of Oncology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland William L Carroll MD Julie and Edward J Minskoff Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Pathology Chief Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center New York New York Peter D Cole MD Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center Bronx New York Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology Director WOLF Foundation Leukemia Lymphoma Laboratory Institute for Cancer Genetics Columbia University Medical Center New York New York Yael P Moss MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Division of Oncology Neuroblastoma Developmental Therapeutics Program Children s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia Pennsylvania James M Olson MD PhD Member Division of Clinical Research Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle Washington Martine F Roussel PhD Member and Endowed Chair in Molecular Oncogenesis Co Director Cancer Center Signal Transduction Program Department of Tumor Cell Biology and Genetics Adjunct Professor The University of Tennessee Health Science Center St Jude Children s Research Hospital Memphis Tennessee Layton Family Fellow of the Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award Elucidating the role of dynamic RNA structures in cancer with Howard Y Chang MD PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford Kathryn R Taylor PhD The effect of neuronal activity on pediatric glioma invasion with Michelle L Monje MD PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford MARYLAND Stacy L Cooper MD The Cebpa 37kb enhancer is a critical target of transformation in acute myeloid leukemia with Alan D Friedman MD Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Michael A Koldobskiy MD PhD DNA methylation stochasticity in pediatric pre B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with Andrew P Feinberg MD Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Cara A Rabik MD PhD Marissa Rashkovan PhD M A S SAC H U S E T TS Yadira M Soto Feliciano PhD Determination of the role of WT1 in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis with Patrick A Brown MD Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Amanda Balboni Iniguez PhD Targeting the EWS FLI oncoprotein in Ewing sarcoma with CDK12 13 inhibitors with Kimberly Stegmaier MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Mark W Zimmerman PhD Elucidating the mechanism of CHD5 mediated tumor suppression in neuroblastoma with A Thomas Look MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Dissecting the role of Menin in acute leukemia with C David Allis PhD The Rockefeller University New York Ly P Vu PhD Uncovering the role of RNA binding protein Syncrip in acute myeloid leukemia AML with Michael G Kharas PhD and Ross L Levine MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York P E N N S Y LVA N I A Tamara P Miller MD MICHIGAN Challice L Bonifant MD PhD Dual antigen targeting by ENG T cells as improved anti AML therapy with Pavan Reddy MD University of Michigan Ann Arbor Improving adverse event reporting on cooperative oncology group trials with Richard Aplenc MD PhD Children s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia TENNESSEE N E W YO R K Robert L Bowman PhD Interrogating the subclonal architecture and functional contribution of mutation order in FLT3 ITD mutant AML with Ross L Levine MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York ANDREW L KU N G M D P h D Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Award Committee Chair Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 26 Targeting metabolic vulnerabilities in ETP ALL with Adolfo A Ferrando MD PhD Columbia University Medical Center New York 27 David W Woessner PhD Discovery of new driver alterations in childhood ALL with Charles G Mullighan MBBS MD St Jude Children s Research Hospital Memphis Initial Year Physician Scientist
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Dale F Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists Damon Runyon PhysicianScientist Training Awards Lydia Finley PhD Pavan Bachireddy MD Christopher J Gibson MD Giada Bianchi MD Carolyn C Jackson MD MPH Molecular mechanisms of ROBO1 in multiple myeloma pathogenesis with Kenneth C Anderson MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts David M Kurtz MD William Raveis Charitable Fund Scientist Regulation of cancer cell growth and survival by the propionate catabolic pathway at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Jens C Schmidt PhD Single molecule analysis of telomerase recruitment to telomeres currently at University of Colorado Boulder Colorado Jakob von Moltke PhD Initiation of type 2 immune responses at the University of Washington Seattle Washington Initial Year William G Kaelin Jr MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts David P Carbone MD PhD Barbara J Bonner Chair in Lung Cancer Research Director Thoracic Oncology Center Professor Division of Medical Oncology Comprehensive Cancer Center The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Lucy A Godley MD PhD Professor Department of Medicine Section of Hematology and Oncology Cancer Research Center The University of Chicago Medicine Chicago Illinois Elucidating the connection between clonal hematopoiesis and lymphoma in humans with Benjamin L Ebert MD DPhil Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts Damon Runyon Celgene Physician Scientist Damon Runyon Physician Scientist Training Award Committee CHAIR Coevolution of tumor and T cell heterogeneity following immunotherapy with Catherine J Wu MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts Peter S Nelson MD Member Program in Prostate Cancer Research Division of Human Biology Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center Professor Division of Medical Oncology Adjunct Professor Genomic Sciences and Pathology University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle Washington Kornelia Polyak MD PhD Professor of Medicine Department of Medical Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts Jeremy N Rich MD Associate Physician Diplomate Department of Medicine University of California San Diego La Jolla California 28 Norman E Sharpless MD Director Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research Departments of Medicine and Genetics University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill North Carolina Cassian Yee MD Professor Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology Professor Department of Immunology Division of Cancer Medicine Director Solid Tumor Cell Therapy Center for Cancer Immunology Research The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas Genetic dissection of pediatric classic Kaposi sarcoma with Jean Laurent Casanova MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Response prediction and personalized therapy from mathematical modeling of circulating tumor DNA in nonHodgkin lymphoma with A Ash Alizadeh MD PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California Kristopher R Bosse MD GPC2 as an oncogene and immunotherapeutic target in highrisk neuroblastoma with John M Maris MD Children s Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Julia C Carnevale MD Developing new therapeutic approaches for pancreatic cancer with homologous recombination repair defects with Alan Ashworth PhD University of California San Francisco California Jennifer L Caswell Jin MD Loretta S Li MD Mechanisms of disease and resistance in CRLF2 rearranged B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with David M Weinstock MD DanaFarber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts Breast cancer evolution and resistance in response to HER2trageted therapy with Christina N Curtis PhD and Allison W Kurian MD MSc Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California Michael W Drazer MD Defining leukemogenic mechanisms in hereditary hematologic malignancies with Lucy A Godley MD PhD The University of Chicago Medicine Chicago Illinois Melody Smith MD CD19 targeted donor T cells impove graft versus tumor activity and reduce graft versus host disease with Marcel R M van den Brink MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Sakiko Suzuki MD AON directed alternative splicing as a novel therapy for leukemia with Glen D Raffel MD PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester Massachusetts 29 As a pediatrician by training I was not interested in research at all when I first started medical school But during my fellowship at the bedside of children I realized that we can talk all we want about curing cancer but without research we re never going to find those cures Those kids motivated my interest in the lab and Damon Runyon made it possible for me to actually become a physicianscientist C A R O LY N C JAC K S O N M D M P H Damon Runyon Physician Scientist Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Damon Runyon Dale F Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists Damon Runyon PhysicianScientist Training Awards Lydia Finley PhD Pavan Bachireddy MD Christopher J Gibson MD Giada Bianchi MD Carolyn C Jackson MD MPH Molecular mechanisms of ROBO1 in multiple myeloma pathogenesis with Kenneth C Anderson MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts David M Kurtz MD William Raveis Charitable Fund Scientist Regulation of cancer cell growth and survival by the propionate catabolic pathway at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Jens C Schmidt PhD Single molecule analysis of telomerase recruitment to telomeres currently at University of Colorado Boulder Colorado Jakob von Moltke PhD Initiation of type 2 immune responses at the University of Washington Seattle Washington Initial Year William G Kaelin Jr MD Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts David P Carbone MD PhD Barbara J Bonner Chair in Lung Cancer Research Director Thoracic Oncology Center Professor Division of Medical Oncology Comprehensive Cancer Center The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio Lucy A Godley MD PhD Professor Department of Medicine Section of Hematology and Oncology Cancer Research Center The University of Chicago Medicine Chicago Illinois Elucidating the connection between clonal hematopoiesis and lymphoma in humans with Benjamin L Ebert MD DPhil Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts Damon Runyon Celgene Physician Scientist Damon Runyon Physician Scientist Training Award Committee CHAIR Coevolution of tumor and T cell heterogeneity following immunotherapy with Catherine J Wu MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts Peter S Nelson MD Member Program in Prostate Cancer Research Division of Human Biology Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center Professor Division of Medical Oncology Adjunct Professor Genomic Sciences and Pathology University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle Washington Kornelia Polyak MD PhD Professor of Medicine Department of Medical Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts Jeremy N Rich MD Associate Physician Diplomate Department of Medicine University of California San Diego La Jolla California 28 Norman E Sharpless MD Director Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research Departments of Medicine and Genetics University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill North Carolina Cassian Yee MD Professor Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology Professor Department of Immunology Division of Cancer Medicine Director Solid Tumor Cell Therapy Center for Cancer Immunology Research The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas Genetic dissection of pediatric classic Kaposi sarcoma with Jean Laurent Casanova MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Response prediction and personalized therapy from mathematical modeling of circulating tumor DNA in nonHodgkin lymphoma with A Ash Alizadeh MD PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California Kristopher R Bosse MD GPC2 as an oncogene and immunotherapeutic target in highrisk neuroblastoma with John M Maris MD Children s Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Julia C Carnevale MD Developing new therapeutic approaches for pancreatic cancer with homologous recombination repair defects with Alan Ashworth PhD University of California San Francisco California Jennifer L Caswell Jin MD Loretta S Li MD Mechanisms of disease and resistance in CRLF2 rearranged B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with David M Weinstock MD DanaFarber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts Breast cancer evolution and resistance in response to HER2trageted therapy with Christina N Curtis PhD and Allison W Kurian MD MSc Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California Michael W Drazer MD Defining leukemogenic mechanisms in hereditary hematologic malignancies with Lucy A Godley MD PhD The University of Chicago Medicine Chicago Illinois Melody Smith MD CD19 targeted donor T cells impove graft versus tumor activity and reduce graft versus host disease with Marcel R M van den Brink MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York New York Sakiko Suzuki MD AON directed alternative splicing as a novel therapy for leukemia with Glen D Raffel MD PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester Massachusetts 29 As a pediatrician by training I was not interested in research at all when I first started medical school But during my fellowship at the bedside of children I realized that we can talk all we want about curing cancer but without research we re never going to find those cures Those kids motivated my interest in the lab and Damon Runyon made it possible for me to actually become a physicianscientist C A R O LY N C JAC K S O N M D M P H Damon Runyon Physician Scientist Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Thank You to Our Donors 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Events B AY A R E A H A M I LT O N E V E N T DA M O N R U N YO N A N N U A L B R E A K FA S T Your support this year enabled us to fund 17 million of research by the next generation of leading cancer researchers exploring bold new ideas Since our founding in 1946 in partnership with donors across the nation Damon Runyon has invested nearly 336 million and funded more than 3 620 young scientists Award Sponsors PETER VAN CAMP left with Nadia s Gift Foundation Innovator Peter J Turnbaugh PhD and Laura Grant Van Camp at a windy rooftop reception in San Francisco before our Hamilton benefit We are grateful to our individual foundation and corporate sponsors who have partnered with us to launch new programs or are funding one or more of our scientists Donors are able to choose scientists to fund based on location institution research focus or cancer type and the award can be named in recognition of their gift BROADWAY ACTRESS MARIN MAZZIE In May Damon Runyon hosted a benefit performance of the hit musical Hamilton in San Francisco raising nearly 1 million Prior to the show members of our Bay Area Committee hosted a VIP reception where guests had the opportunity to meet Damon Runyon scientists conducting innovative research at Stanford University the University of California San Francisco and the University of California Berkeley Our Annual Breakfast which commemorated our 70th Anniversary was held in New York in June and raised more than 1 1 million Craig B Thompson MD President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center spoke about the progress made in cancer research over the past 70 years Marin Mazzie three time Tony Award nominated Broadway actress and cancer survivor celebrated our long standing partnership with Broadway theaters R U N YO N 5 K AT YA N K E E S TA D I U M R AV E I S R I D E WA L K AWARD SPONSORS ARE LISTED ON PAGES 32 34 Donor Spotlight Thank you to the Illini 4000 a student run organization that has raised more than 250 000 for Damon Runyon since 2011 through their annual cross country bike rides Along their journey from New York to San Francisco riders meet with Damon Runyon scientists to learn more about the research they are helping to fund The Illini 4000 at the lab of former Fellow and Dale F Frey Breakthrough Scientist Michael J Smanski PhD at the University of Minnesota DAMON RUNYON BOARD AND BAY AREA COMMITTEE MEMBER ANDREW S RACHLEFF WITH HIS DAUGHTER SHELBY AND WIFE DEBBIE Being part of the Illini 4000 was an amazing experience It inspired me to get more involved with Damon Runyon and contribute to its important mission ELIZABETH BERGER Damon Runyon staff member and 2015 rider 30 PARTICIPANTS IN THE RUNYON 5K AT YANKEE STADIUM PARTICIPANTS IN THE RAVEIS RIDE WALK More than 1 300 runners and walkers helped raise over 400 000 by participating in the Damon Runyon 5K at Yankee Stadium in August 2016 The eighth annual Runyon 5K was presented by MetLife Foundation with additional support from Poland Spring Cabot Creamery Good Leaf Smoothies SkinnyPop Utz Aromaflage 24 Hour Fitness New York City Football Club NBC 4 New York New York Post SiriusXM and the New York Yankees 31 The second annual William Raveis Ride Walk benefiting Damon Runyon took place in October 2016 More than 600 people participated and volunteered in this fun family event which included bike rides and a 5K walk These events have raised more than 1 million for cancer research
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Thank You to Our Donors 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Events B AY A R E A H A M I LT O N E V E N T DA M O N R U N YO N A N N U A L B R E A K FA S T Your support this year enabled us to fund 17 million of research by the next generation of leading cancer researchers exploring bold new ideas Since our founding in 1946 in partnership with donors across the nation Damon Runyon has invested nearly 336 million and funded more than 3 620 young scientists Award Sponsors PETER VAN CAMP left with Nadia s Gift Foundation Innovator Peter J Turnbaugh PhD and Laura Grant Van Camp at a windy rooftop reception in San Francisco before our Hamilton benefit We are grateful to our individual foundation and corporate sponsors who have partnered with us to launch new programs or are funding one or more of our scientists Donors are able to choose scientists to fund based on location institution research focus or cancer type and the award can be named in recognition of their gift BROADWAY ACTRESS MARIN MAZZIE In May Damon Runyon hosted a benefit performance of the hit musical Hamilton in San Francisco raising nearly 1 million Prior to the show members of our Bay Area Committee hosted a VIP reception where guests had the opportunity to meet Damon Runyon scientists conducting innovative research at Stanford University the University of California San Francisco and the University of California Berkeley Our Annual Breakfast which commemorated our 70th Anniversary was held in New York in June and raised more than 1 1 million Craig B Thompson MD President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center spoke about the progress made in cancer research over the past 70 years Marin Mazzie three time Tony Award nominated Broadway actress and cancer survivor celebrated our long standing partnership with Broadway theaters R U N YO N 5 K AT YA N K E E S TA D I U M R AV E I S R I D E WA L K AWARD SPONSORS ARE LISTED ON PAGES 32 34 Donor Spotlight Thank you to the Illini 4000 a student run organization that has raised more than 250 000 for Damon Runyon since 2011 through their annual cross country bike rides Along their journey from New York to San Francisco riders meet with Damon Runyon scientists to learn more about the research they are helping to fund The Illini 4000 at the lab of former Fellow and Dale F Frey Breakthrough Scientist Michael J Smanski PhD at the University of Minnesota DAMON RUNYON BOARD AND BAY AREA COMMITTEE MEMBER ANDREW S RACHLEFF WITH HIS DAUGHTER SHELBY AND WIFE DEBBIE Being part of the Illini 4000 was an amazing experience It inspired me to get more involved with Damon Runyon and contribute to its important mission ELIZABETH BERGER Damon Runyon staff member and 2015 rider 30 PARTICIPANTS IN THE RUNYON 5K AT YANKEE STADIUM PARTICIPANTS IN THE RAVEIS RIDE WALK More than 1 300 runners and walkers helped raise over 400 000 by participating in the Damon Runyon 5K at Yankee Stadium in August 2016 The eighth annual Runyon 5K was presented by MetLife Foundation with additional support from Poland Spring Cabot Creamery Good Leaf Smoothies SkinnyPop Utz Aromaflage 24 Hour Fitness New York City Football Club NBC 4 New York New York Post SiriusXM and the New York Yankees 31 The second annual William Raveis Ride Walk benefiting Damon Runyon took place in October 2016 More than 600 people participated and volunteered in this fun family event which included bike rides and a 5K walk These events have raised more than 1 million for cancer research
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Sponsored Awards Sponsored Awards continued We are fortunate to have individual foundation and corporate sponsors who have partnered with us to launch or provide continuing support for specific award programs We thank them for their vision Sigrid Nachtergaele PhD Kathrin Leppek PhD Jose M Ordovas Montanes PhD Yin Liu PhD Magdalena E Potok PhD Marion Abbe Fellow The University of Chicago Stanford University School of Medicine Massachusetts Institute of Technology C L I N I C A L I N V E S T I G AT O R C O N T I N U AT I O N G R A N T Sudeep Banjade PhD This award was established thanks to the vision and generosity of Debbie and Andy Rachleff Follow up funding for select Clinical Investigators has been provided thanks to the William K Bowes Jr Foundation Brian J Beliveau PhD Island Outreach Foundation Innovator F E L L O W S H I P AWA R D S Christopher J Cambier PhD Columbia University The following awards are funded by donors who have generously endowed an award in perpetuity or sponsored an individual Fellow Stanford University Stanford University School of Medicine Sarah Z Tasker PhD Berger Foundation Fellow Xintong Dong PhD Neil T Umbreit PhD DA M O N R U N YO N R AC H L E F F I N N O VAT I O N AWA R D S Piero D Dalerba MD Nadia s Gift Foundation Innovator Peter J Turnbaugh PhD University of California San Francisco William Raveis Charitable Fund Innovators Jason M Crawford PhD Yale University Benjamin L Martin PhD Stony Brook University David Q Matus PhD Stony Brook University CLINICAL I N V E S T I G AT O R AWA R D S This award was initially established in partnership with Eli Lilly and Company In addition to the named awards it is supported by Accelerating Cancer Cures a collaboration between Damon Runyon and leading biopharmaceutical companies Gordon Family Clinical Investigator Geoffrey R Oxnard MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute MetLife Foundation Clinical Investigator Christopher E Barbieri MD PhD Weill Cornell Medicine Richard Lumsden Foundation Clinical Investigator Alex Kentsis MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Bryan C King PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Connie and Bob Lurie Fellow Duy P Nguyen PhD University of California San Francisco Cornell University Harvard University Andrew A Bridges PhD Princeton University Anupam K Chakravarty PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Casey A Gifford PhD Gladstone Institutes Alexander M Jaeger PhD Dale F and Betty Ann Frey Fellow Masssachusetts Institute of Technology The Rockefeller University Nora Kory PhD Linghe Xi PhD David M Livingston MD Fellow Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Dana Farber Cancer Institute Brian J Laidlaw PhD Tikvah K Hayes PhD Dennis and Marsha Dammerman Fellow Caitlin A Brennan PhD Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health Fayez Sarofim Fellow Jeremy I Roop PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Fraternal Order of Eagles Fellow Ryan D Baldridge PhD Harvard Medical School GE Asset Management Fellow Jonathan R Whicher PhD The Rockefeller University Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI Fellows Brittany Adamson PhD University of California San Francisco 32 University of California San Francisco June Yong Lee PhD New York University School of Medicine Tera C Levin PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Alesia N McKeown PhD University of Utah School of Medicine Matthew P Miller PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Mandy M Muller PhD Timothy D Martin PhD University of California Los Angeles Brigham and Women s Hospital William Razzell PhD Merck Fellows Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Dennis L Buckley PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Alexey A Soshnev MD PhD Ivana Gasic Dr Sc The Rockefeller University Harvard Medical School Hume A Stroud PhD Daniel H Goldman PhD Harvard Medical School Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Fuguo Jiang PhD University of Illinois University of California Berkeley Alistair B Russell PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Thomas S Vierbuchen PhD Harvard Medical School Joseph D Schonhoft PhD Sungwook Woo PhD The Scripps Research Institute Harvard University Shaogeng Steven Tang PhD Swathi Yadlapalli PhD Stanford University University of Michigan Xin Zhou PhD Ziyang Zhang PhD University of California San Francisco University of California San Francisco Boris Zinshteyn PhD Philip O Bryan Montgomery Jr MD Fellow Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Daniel E Webster PhD National Institutes of Health Illini 4000 Fellow Rand M Miller PhD Rebecca Ridley Kry Fellow Kandarian Family Fellow University of California San Francisco The Rockefeller University Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fellow Kenneth G and Elaine A Langone Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jeffrey A Hussmann PhD The Rockefeller University Chao Lu PhD Chenxi Tian PhD Tony Y Tsai MD PhD Suzanne and Bob Wright Fellow Lallage Feazel Wall Fellow Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School Emma Watson PhD Laura Blanton PhD The award recognizes one Damon Runyon Fellow each year whose research is most likely to have an impact on childhood cancer It is supported by Jean Singer and Jonathan Wetchler Jake s parents and the foundation they established in his honor In September 2016 we provided the first award a 5 000 prize to Mark W Zimmerman PhD a Damon Runyon Sohn Fellow at Dana Farber Cancer Institute who studies neuroblastoma Corina E Antal PhD Salk Institute Layton Family Fellows Andrew C Murley PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Keren I Hilgendorf PhD This Award is named in honor of Jake Wetchler who died at age 20 after a heroic fight against two different cancers He would say Don t let the cancer win and we won t Robert Black Fellows Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research University of California Berkeley University of California Berkeley Stanford University School of Medicine Damon Runyon Jake Wetchler Award for Pediatric Innovation Lindsay B Case PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 33 M A R K W ZIMMERMAN PhD
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Sponsored Awards Sponsored Awards continued We are fortunate to have individual foundation and corporate sponsors who have partnered with us to launch or provide continuing support for specific award programs We thank them for their vision Sigrid Nachtergaele PhD Kathrin Leppek PhD Jose M Ordovas Montanes PhD Yin Liu PhD Magdalena E Potok PhD Marion Abbe Fellow The University of Chicago Stanford University School of Medicine Massachusetts Institute of Technology C L I N I C A L I N V E S T I G AT O R C O N T I N U AT I O N G R A N T Sudeep Banjade PhD This award was established thanks to the vision and generosity of Debbie and Andy Rachleff Follow up funding for select Clinical Investigators has been provided thanks to the William K Bowes Jr Foundation Brian J Beliveau PhD Island Outreach Foundation Innovator F E L L O W S H I P AWA R D S Christopher J Cambier PhD Columbia University The following awards are funded by donors who have generously endowed an award in perpetuity or sponsored an individual Fellow Stanford University Stanford University School of Medicine Sarah Z Tasker PhD Berger Foundation Fellow Xintong Dong PhD Neil T Umbreit PhD DA M O N R U N YO N R AC H L E F F I N N O VAT I O N AWA R D S Piero D Dalerba MD Nadia s Gift Foundation Innovator Peter J Turnbaugh PhD University of California San Francisco William Raveis Charitable Fund Innovators Jason M Crawford PhD Yale University Benjamin L Martin PhD Stony Brook University David Q Matus PhD Stony Brook University CLINICAL I N V E S T I G AT O R AWA R D S This award was initially established in partnership with Eli Lilly and Company In addition to the named awards it is supported by Accelerating Cancer Cures a collaboration between Damon Runyon and leading biopharmaceutical companies Gordon Family Clinical Investigator Geoffrey R Oxnard MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute MetLife Foundation Clinical Investigator Christopher E Barbieri MD PhD Weill Cornell Medicine Richard Lumsden Foundation Clinical Investigator Alex Kentsis MD PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Bryan C King PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Connie and Bob Lurie Fellow Duy P Nguyen PhD University of California San Francisco Cornell University Harvard University Andrew A Bridges PhD Princeton University Anupam K Chakravarty PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Casey A Gifford PhD Gladstone Institutes Alexander M Jaeger PhD Dale F and Betty Ann Frey Fellow Masssachusetts Institute of Technology The Rockefeller University Nora Kory PhD Linghe Xi PhD David M Livingston MD Fellow Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Dana Farber Cancer Institute Brian J Laidlaw PhD Tikvah K Hayes PhD Dennis and Marsha Dammerman Fellow Caitlin A Brennan PhD Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health Fayez Sarofim Fellow Jeremy I Roop PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Fraternal Order of Eagles Fellow Ryan D Baldridge PhD Harvard Medical School GE Asset Management Fellow Jonathan R Whicher PhD The Rockefeller University Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI Fellows Brittany Adamson PhD University of California San Francisco 32 University of California San Francisco June Yong Lee PhD New York University School of Medicine Tera C Levin PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Alesia N McKeown PhD University of Utah School of Medicine Matthew P Miller PhD Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Mandy M Muller PhD Timothy D Martin PhD University of California Los Angeles Brigham and Women s Hospital William Razzell PhD Merck Fellows Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Dennis L Buckley PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Alexey A Soshnev MD PhD Ivana Gasic Dr Sc The Rockefeller University Harvard Medical School Hume A Stroud PhD Daniel H Goldman PhD Harvard Medical School Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Fuguo Jiang PhD University of Illinois University of California Berkeley Alistair B Russell PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Thomas S Vierbuchen PhD Harvard Medical School Joseph D Schonhoft PhD Sungwook Woo PhD The Scripps Research Institute Harvard University Shaogeng Steven Tang PhD Swathi Yadlapalli PhD Stanford University University of Michigan Xin Zhou PhD Ziyang Zhang PhD University of California San Francisco University of California San Francisco Boris Zinshteyn PhD Philip O Bryan Montgomery Jr MD Fellow Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Daniel E Webster PhD National Institutes of Health Illini 4000 Fellow Rand M Miller PhD Rebecca Ridley Kry Fellow Kandarian Family Fellow University of California San Francisco The Rockefeller University Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Fellow Kenneth G and Elaine A Langone Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jeffrey A Hussmann PhD The Rockefeller University Chao Lu PhD Chenxi Tian PhD Tony Y Tsai MD PhD Suzanne and Bob Wright Fellow Lallage Feazel Wall Fellow Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School Emma Watson PhD Laura Blanton PhD The award recognizes one Damon Runyon Fellow each year whose research is most likely to have an impact on childhood cancer It is supported by Jean Singer and Jonathan Wetchler Jake s parents and the foundation they established in his honor In September 2016 we provided the first award a 5 000 prize to Mark W Zimmerman PhD a Damon Runyon Sohn Fellow at Dana Farber Cancer Institute who studies neuroblastoma Corina E Antal PhD Salk Institute Layton Family Fellows Andrew C Murley PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Keren I Hilgendorf PhD This Award is named in honor of Jake Wetchler who died at age 20 after a heroic fight against two different cancers He would say Don t let the cancer win and we won t Robert Black Fellows Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research University of California Berkeley University of California Berkeley Stanford University School of Medicine Damon Runyon Jake Wetchler Award for Pediatric Innovation Lindsay B Case PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 33 M A R K W ZIMMERMAN PhD
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Our Contributors Sponsored Awards continued Allison N Lau PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology John D Leonard PhD The University of Chicago Seyed F Torabi PhD Yale University Eric S Wang PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellows Harihar Basnet PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Aaron D Viny MD MS Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Yi Yin PhD University of Washington Lindsay M LaFave PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zhuobin Liang PhD Yale University School of Medicine DA M O N R U N YO N DA L E F F R E Y AWA R D FOR BREAKTHROUGH SCIENTISTS Funded by the William Raveis Charitable Fund Lydia Finley PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center DA M O N R U N YO N S O H N P E D I AT R I C C A N C E R F E L L O W S H I P AWA R D David W Woessner PhD This award program was launched in partnership with the generous support of the Sohn Conference Foundation Dana Farber Cancer Institute Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellows supported by the Sohn Conference Foundation zlem Aksoy PhD University of California San Francisco Amanda Balboni Iniguez PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Challice L Bonifant MD PhD University of Michigan Stacy L Cooper MD Johns Hopkins University Michael A Koldobskiy MD PhD Johns Hopkins University Cara A Rabik MD PhD St Jude Children s Research Hospital Mark W Zimmerman PhD Layton Family Fellow of the Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Zhipeng Lu PhD Stanford University School of Medcine DA M O N R U N YO N P H YS I C I A N S C I E N T I ST T R A I N I N G AWA R D S This award was established thanks to the generosity of Damon Runyon Board Members Leon G Cooperman and Michael L Gordon Damon Runyon Celgene Physician Scientist Giada Bianchi MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute In perpetuity Johns Hopkins University Marissa Rashkovan PhD Columbia University Medical Center Kathryn R Taylor PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Ly P Vu PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Accelerating Cancer Cures Thank you to Eli Lilly and Company Celgene Genentech Gilead Merck and Novartis for partnering with us to support the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award and for helping to foster communication and collaboration between our scientists and the biopharmaceutical industry The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation acknowledges the generosity and support of the many donors who supported our brilliant researchers through gifts to the Foundation from July 1 2016 to June 30 2017 Those whose individual lifetime giving is 100 000 or more are in bold and those whose lifetime giving exceeds 1 million are in blue We are especially grateful to these extraordinarily generous and committed donors 1 000 000 50 000 TO 99 999 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Merck Company Inc Angelo Gordon Co Sol and Margaret Berger Foundation EOG Resources Inc Hettinger Foundation HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus MetLife Select Equity Group Silicon Valley Community Foundation Jean E Singer and Jonathan D Wetchler The Varelas Family Fund 500 000 TO 999 999 William K Bowes Jr Foundation Leon Toby Cooperman Foundation Mr Michael L Gordon Sohn Conference Foundation William Raveis Charitable Fund 100 000 TO 499 999 Anonymous 2 Terry and David Beirne Robert Black Charitable Foundation Celgene Corporation Estate of Adrienne Harry Chamberlain Ms Deborah Coleman and Mr Timothy Diggins Community Foundation for Monterey County Estate of Alice E Conover Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Gilead Sciences Island Outreach Foundation The Layton Family Fund Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Foundation Richard A Lumsden Foundation MetLife Foundation Nadia s Gift Foundation Debbie and Andy Rachleff The Jake Wetchler Foundation for Innovative Pediatric Cancer Research William Randolph Hearst Foundation 25 000 TO 49 999 Anonymous 2 Ayco Charitable Foundation Beacon Capital Partners LLC Edith C Blum Foundation Robyn and Tony Coles Estate of Rita Eisenberg Equinix Kelly and Buck French Glover Acquisitions LLC Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles The Illini 4000 for Cancer Independent Charities of America Valerie and Jay Ireland Morana Jovan Embiricos PhD Estate of Marie Kronman Mr and Mrs David G Marshall Mr John P McKeown Gordon H Karen M Millner Family Foundation Eugene and Mary Murphy Charitable Gift Fund The Pew Charitable Trusts Karen and Charles Phillips The Frances and Abraham Reichman Charitable Trust The Bruce Robert Reid Family Foundation The Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation Inc The San Francisco Foundation Ms Karen D Seitz The Richard C and Theresa P Smith Memorial Fund Ms Cynthia F Sulzberger and Mr Steven B Green UBS Financial Services Inc Laura and Peter Van Camp 10 000 TO 24 999 Almar Foundation Judy Hart Angelo Baupost Group LLC Dawn Yates Black Mr and Mrs Lawrence A Bossidy Mrs Elizabeth Brown Deutsche Bank Securities Inc Dolphin Charitable Gift Fund Echlin Foundation Lorraine and Bill Egan Carson and Helmy Eltoukhy Mr and Mrs Gary E Erlbaum Mr and Mrs Steven H Erlbaum Edward P Evans Foundation Fiduciary Trust International Dale Betty Ann Frey Family Foundation Estate of Lawrence J Gazzolo General Electric Foundation Estate of Mary Catherine S Glick PhD Mr and Mrs David Gochman Paula and James Gould Sharon and Scott Greenstein Steve Hayden Heitman LLC Solange and Mike Hommel Mr Andre Hunter Jewish Communal Fund Mr Steven A Kandarian The Kauffmann Foundation Inc Angela and Noah Knauf Mr Scott Kovalik Ms Wendy Kreeger Our donor lists are checked carefully However if you have any corrections or questions please call us at 877 722 6237 The full pledge amount is listed in the year the pledge is made In subsequent years actual pledge payments are listed 34 35
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Our Contributors Sponsored Awards continued Allison N Lau PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology John D Leonard PhD The University of Chicago Seyed F Torabi PhD Yale University Eric S Wang PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute William Raveis Charitable Fund Fellows Harihar Basnet PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Aaron D Viny MD MS Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Yi Yin PhD University of Washington Lindsay M LaFave PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zhuobin Liang PhD Yale University School of Medicine DA M O N R U N YO N DA L E F F R E Y AWA R D FOR BREAKTHROUGH SCIENTISTS Funded by the William Raveis Charitable Fund Lydia Finley PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center DA M O N R U N YO N S O H N P E D I AT R I C C A N C E R F E L L O W S H I P AWA R D David W Woessner PhD This award program was launched in partnership with the generous support of the Sohn Conference Foundation Dana Farber Cancer Institute Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellows supported by the Sohn Conference Foundation zlem Aksoy PhD University of California San Francisco Amanda Balboni Iniguez PhD Dana Farber Cancer Institute Challice L Bonifant MD PhD University of Michigan Stacy L Cooper MD Johns Hopkins University Michael A Koldobskiy MD PhD Johns Hopkins University Cara A Rabik MD PhD St Jude Children s Research Hospital Mark W Zimmerman PhD Layton Family Fellow of the Damon Runyon Sohn Foundation Pediatric Cancer Fellowship Zhipeng Lu PhD Stanford University School of Medcine DA M O N R U N YO N P H YS I C I A N S C I E N T I ST T R A I N I N G AWA R D S This award was established thanks to the generosity of Damon Runyon Board Members Leon G Cooperman and Michael L Gordon Damon Runyon Celgene Physician Scientist Giada Bianchi MD Dana Farber Cancer Institute In perpetuity Johns Hopkins University Marissa Rashkovan PhD Columbia University Medical Center Kathryn R Taylor PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Ly P Vu PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Accelerating Cancer Cures Thank you to Eli Lilly and Company Celgene Genentech Gilead Merck and Novartis for partnering with us to support the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award and for helping to foster communication and collaboration between our scientists and the biopharmaceutical industry The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation acknowledges the generosity and support of the many donors who supported our brilliant researchers through gifts to the Foundation from July 1 2016 to June 30 2017 Those whose individual lifetime giving is 100 000 or more are in bold and those whose lifetime giving exceeds 1 million are in blue We are especially grateful to these extraordinarily generous and committed donors 1 000 000 50 000 TO 99 999 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Merck Company Inc Angelo Gordon Co Sol and Margaret Berger Foundation EOG Resources Inc Hettinger Foundation HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus MetLife Select Equity Group Silicon Valley Community Foundation Jean E Singer and Jonathan D Wetchler The Varelas Family Fund 500 000 TO 999 999 William K Bowes Jr Foundation Leon Toby Cooperman Foundation Mr Michael L Gordon Sohn Conference Foundation William Raveis Charitable Fund 100 000 TO 499 999 Anonymous 2 Terry and David Beirne Robert Black Charitable Foundation Celgene Corporation Estate of Adrienne Harry Chamberlain Ms Deborah Coleman and Mr Timothy Diggins Community Foundation for Monterey County Estate of Alice E Conover Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Gilead Sciences Island Outreach Foundation The Layton Family Fund Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Foundation Richard A Lumsden Foundation MetLife Foundation Nadia s Gift Foundation Debbie and Andy Rachleff The Jake Wetchler Foundation for Innovative Pediatric Cancer Research William Randolph Hearst Foundation 25 000 TO 49 999 Anonymous 2 Ayco Charitable Foundation Beacon Capital Partners LLC Edith C Blum Foundation Robyn and Tony Coles Estate of Rita Eisenberg Equinix Kelly and Buck French Glover Acquisitions LLC Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles The Illini 4000 for Cancer Independent Charities of America Valerie and Jay Ireland Morana Jovan Embiricos PhD Estate of Marie Kronman Mr and Mrs David G Marshall Mr John P McKeown Gordon H Karen M Millner Family Foundation Eugene and Mary Murphy Charitable Gift Fund The Pew Charitable Trusts Karen and Charles Phillips The Frances and Abraham Reichman Charitable Trust The Bruce Robert Reid Family Foundation The Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation Inc The San Francisco Foundation Ms Karen D Seitz The Richard C and Theresa P Smith Memorial Fund Ms Cynthia F Sulzberger and Mr Steven B Green UBS Financial Services Inc Laura and Peter Van Camp 10 000 TO 24 999 Almar Foundation Judy Hart Angelo Baupost Group LLC Dawn Yates Black Mr and Mrs Lawrence A Bossidy Mrs Elizabeth Brown Deutsche Bank Securities Inc Dolphin Charitable Gift Fund Echlin Foundation Lorraine and Bill Egan Carson and Helmy Eltoukhy Mr and Mrs Gary E Erlbaum Mr and Mrs Steven H Erlbaum Edward P Evans Foundation Fiduciary Trust International Dale Betty Ann Frey Family Foundation Estate of Lawrence J Gazzolo General Electric Foundation Estate of Mary Catherine S Glick PhD Mr and Mrs David Gochman Paula and James Gould Sharon and Scott Greenstein Steve Hayden Heitman LLC Solange and Mike Hommel Mr Andre Hunter Jewish Communal Fund Mr Steven A Kandarian The Kauffmann Foundation Inc Angela and Noah Knauf Mr Scott Kovalik Ms Wendy Kreeger Our donor lists are checked carefully However if you have any corrections or questions please call us at 877 722 6237 The full pledge amount is listed in the year the pledge is made In subsequent years actual pledge payments are listed 34 35
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Mr and Mrs Kenneth G Langone Ms Brigette Lau and Mr Chamath Palihapitiya Leonard Charitable Foundation Connie Bob Lurie Foundation Mr and Mrs Henry Mannix III Mr and Mrs Gerald M Marshall Mr and Mrs John H Myers National Mah Jongg League Foundation Paisley Family Fund Pfizer Inc Proskauer Pyramid Hotel Group Yunealda Randall Gordon M Ringold PhD Rebecca and Arthur Samberg Mr Gary M Saretsky Eva and Bryan Schreier Schulte Roth Zabel LLP Schwab Charitable Michael V Seiden MD PhD Estate of Maude B Seifert Henry J Kathleen Singer Family Foundation Gerri and Andrew Sommers Family Fund State Street Global Advisors The Linda B Howard S Stern Family Foundation Ms Judy C Swanson The Symonds Foundation Carol and Lee Tesconi Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Mr Peter J Worth Ms Julia J Young 5 000 TO 9 999 America s Best Charities Mrs Velma M Anderson Mrs Susannah Bailin Barclays Barnett Family Philanthropic Fund Barthold Family Foundation Carol Bartz and William Marr Mr F Harlan Batrus Mrs Barbara Lieb Baumstein Mr and Mrs Steven H Berg Susan Boeing Mr Richard L Bowen Mr Frank M Bumstead The Chubb Corporation Estate of Laurelia M Clifford Mr and Mrs Frank Doyle Mr and Mrs Larry Droppa Mr Blair W Effron Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC The Frances and Jeffrey Fisher Charitable Foundation Ms Terri Friedman Mr Gregory Garvey The Walter F Alice Girham Foundation Inc Mrs Ann M Gnys Mr Steve Goldberg Ms Mignon Groch Tamara L Harris Foundation Michaela and Jay Hoag Sandra Horbach and Steven Skoler The Howard Bayne Fund Mr and Mrs Wayne M Hummel Paula Hurd Emily Jaquette Jesy Foundation Mrs Carolyn June Kaplan Kelleher Family Charitable Trust Mr Richard A Konigsberg Mr and Mrs Jeremy R Kramer Alison Krausz Ms Ann E Levine Dr Jeffrey Liss Kenneth J Livak PhD The Luppe And Paula Luppen Family Foundation Mr and Mrs James I Magid Marble Fund Inc Anne and Paul Marcus Family Foundation Maverick Capital Charities Ms Jami W McKeon The 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Ms Nina Lesavoy Levin Capital Strategies L P The Nate and Ann Levine Family Foundation Mr Doug Levine Mrs Loren Levine Ms Ellen Levy Mr Daniel Levy Mr Randy Levy Ronald Levy MD Ms Lisa Lichtenberg Ms Susan M Lichtman Mr and Mrs Michael C Lieberbaum Mr and Mrs Steven A Lieberman Mr and Mrs Douglas S Lipton Ms Susan Lipton Jenifer Liu and Gerald Cooper David M Livingston MD Ms Margaret Louie Mr Roger Lowe Loynd Family Foundation Mr Gregory Lynn Elaine Macasiray Mr Timothy Macdonald Ms Janette Macdonell I believe Damon Runyon is the path to the end goal of curing cancer and I feel lucky to be a part of it P E T E R VA N C A M P Board Member Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Ms Jennifer Madden Shelly Magpuri Mr Michael Mallardi Ms Donna Malliet Mr Joe Mandato Mr Kevin Maranowski Judith Marcus The Billi Marcus Foundation Dr Malcolm L Margolin Dr Richard Marino Mr Robert Marston Ms Anne Martin Mr Christopher Martinez Ms Ann Mathewson Ms Dipti Mathur Ms Adrienne Matros The August 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Lalita Tademy Mrs Elizabeth Talmadge Jean Y Tang MD PhD Ms Michele Tang Mr Kenneth Tarkoff Dr Stewart M Taubkin Ms Adina Taubman Mr and Mrs Sanford V Teplitzky The David B Terk Foundation Mr Elias Theodoropoulos Ms Alyssa Thomas Craig B Thompson MD Ms Jennifer Toll Mr William Tom Danielle Tonev Jennifer and Don Torey Sherice R Torres Mary Beth Towery Tiffany Tran Mr and Mrs John M Trani 40 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Ms Dina Treanor and Mr Jeffrey Taschler Treasury Partners Ms Kavita Trivedi Christie Trott Ms Claire J Tunick Ms Sirma Tzoutzova United Way of Central Maryland United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Mr and Mrs E Scott Urdang Arianna Vaisman Dr Nancy Valente Mr Craig M Varrelman CFA Rohini Vashist Mr Rahul Verma Mr Aaron Vermut Mr Sheldon Vidibor Ms Kathryn Vizas Ms Kim Wachtel Mr Robert Waldbauer Ms Joni L Walser and Mr Andrew Church Ms Denise Walsh Jean H and John T Walter Jr Fund Victoria E H Wang MD PhD Ms Jennifer Wang Mr and Mrs Peter J Wasserman Mr Bobby A Wasserman Wasserman Foundation Georgianna and Robert Waters Ms Jill Wehrly Mr and Mrs David Weiner Dr and Mrs Victor J Weinstein Mr and Mrs Bennett Weinstock David and Candace Weir Foundation Wells Fargo Wealth Management James A Wells PhD Mr Woody Wen Mr Joel P Whidden Mrs Barbara Why Dr Janet M Widra Mr and Mrs Frank H Wildt William D E M Lane Foundation Mr James Wilson Mr Benjamin J Winter Mrs Geraldine Wong Mr Rod Wood Jill and Nick Woodman Mr Connor Woodson Bob Wright Ms Meredith Wright Zaza Wu Y Knot Enterprises Ms Barbara M Young Ms Anna Zappettini Mr Jay Zises Mr Seymour W Zises Broadway Premier Circle The Broadway Premier Circle is a group of loyal Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets customers who have made a special donation in support of cancer research The Premier Circle offers members priority access to tickets and other benefits Ms Lawson P Allen Mr Dean V Ambrose Mr and Mrs Roger Baumann Ms Jill C Bee Mr James Bennett Mr and Mrs Edgar F Berner Mr and Mrs Robert and Eugenie Birch Ms Mindee Blanco Mr Harold Block Mr Richard L Bowen Mrs Lisa Braun Glazer Ms Lisa Bullock Mr and Mrs Frank M Bumstead Mr and Mrs Paul Ciminello Mr Philip J Clark Ms Deborah Clayman and Mr Lawrence Raiman Mr and Mrs Samuel T Cohen Ms Brenda L Crane Ms Dorothy D Amato Mr and Mrs Philip DeToledo Mr and Mrs Larry D Droppa Mr Michael L Dweck Mr and Mrs Dexter D Earle Bradford Edgerton MD Mr and Mrs Steven H Erlbaum Discovery Society Discovery Society members are valued supporters who have provided for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation through planned gifts These donations provide a vital source of support and fuel future breakthroughs against cancer Mr Robert Ettl Mr and Mrs Samuel M Feder Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Mr and Mrs Mark Fishman Ms Linda Frankel Mr and Mrs Norman Freidkin Ms Mary Ann Frenzel Mr and Mrs Otto N Frenzel III Mr Leonard R Ganz Mr Paul D Goldenheim Mr William Grabe Ms Aileen J Grebow Ms Eleanor Gross Ms Penelope P Harris Mr and Mrs Gary Hellinger Mr Andre 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DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Ms Erica Rogers Mr Keith S Rosen Mrs Miriam K Rothenberg Stacey Roura The Roxe Foundation Ms Melissa Rubel Ms Kimberly Rubin Mr Milton B Rubin Ms Pamela Rupright Mr Peter Rusev Mr Robert F Salkowski Ms Barbara D Salmanson Ms Jennifer Sandell Sanderson Family Charitable Fund Mr Steven B Sands Ms Rani Sanghera Lisa and Steven Schatz Philanthropic Fund Dr David Schenkein Mr and Mrs Stephen Scherr Kim and Lee Scheuer Mr Norman R Schlanger Ms Tanja Schlosser Mr Alan S Schneier Mr Paul Schnell Mr Seth Schreiberg Mr Andrew Schroeder Mendon F Schutt Family Fund Mr Cary M Schwartz Mr David G Schwartz Mr Robert D Scinto Mr James P Scopa Mr William Scroggins Mr and Mrs Richard Scudellari Mr Jeff Sears Mr David S Seawright Mrs Clare F Segall Ms Mary Shapero Mr Alan Shapiro Mr Steven L Shapiro Mrs Felice K Shea Ms Debra Shedlin Mr and Mrs Robert B Shepler Ms Barbara Sherman Ms Pooja Shetty Mr Jerry V Shields Mr and Mrs Bill Shmerler Ms Linda Shulman The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc Joseph M Siegman Family Foundation The Harvey Silverman Foundation Ms Barbara Silverman Ms Patricia Silverstein Ms Susan Singer Mr Harinderjit Singh Mr Ranvir Singh Mr and Mrs Adam D Sloan Estate of Lidie Anne Smith Estate of Mildred A Smith Paula and Steve Smith Ms Susan L Solomon Mr and Mrs Mark Soltau Lisa Sonsini Philippe Soriano DSc PhD Soros Fund Charitable Foundation Ms Katherine Spaeth Ms Robie E Spector Mr Philip Spiegel Catherine Spieker Ms Bonnie Spiesberger Ms Amy Spiros Christina St Clair Mr and Mrs Kenneth M Stabler Ms Dale Stahler Mr and Mrs Alex Stankevich Mr Sean Stannard Stockton State Street Foundation Matching Gift Program Mr David Steinberg Mr Joshua Steiner Ms Sarah Stenn Ms Sara Steppe Mrs Barbara W Stern Mr and Mrs Mervyn H Sternberg Mr Mark Stevenson Christina Strand Ms Robin Strawbridge Mr and Mrs James Studer Mr Jonathan L Sulds Mr Selby Sullivan Mr Peter Sun Mr Sean Supple Mary Green Swig T Rowe Price Trust Co Lalita Tademy Mrs Elizabeth Talmadge Jean Y Tang MD PhD Ms Michele Tang Mr Kenneth Tarkoff Dr Stewart M Taubkin Ms Adina Taubman Mr and Mrs Sanford V Teplitzky The David B Terk Foundation Mr Elias Theodoropoulos Ms Alyssa Thomas Craig B Thompson MD Ms Jennifer Toll Mr William Tom Danielle Tonev Jennifer and Don Torey Sherice R Torres Mary Beth Towery Tiffany Tran Mr and Mrs John M Trani 40 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Ms Dina Treanor and Mr Jeffrey Taschler Treasury Partners Ms Kavita Trivedi Christie Trott Ms Claire J Tunick Ms Sirma Tzoutzova United Way of Central Maryland United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Mr and Mrs E Scott Urdang Arianna Vaisman Dr Nancy Valente Mr Craig M Varrelman CFA Rohini Vashist Mr Rahul Verma Mr Aaron Vermut Mr Sheldon Vidibor Ms Kathryn Vizas Ms Kim Wachtel Mr Robert Waldbauer Ms Joni L Walser and Mr Andrew Church Ms Denise Walsh Jean H and John T Walter Jr Fund Victoria E H Wang MD PhD Ms Jennifer Wang Mr and Mrs Peter J Wasserman Mr Bobby A Wasserman Wasserman Foundation Georgianna and Robert Waters Ms Jill Wehrly Mr and Mrs David Weiner Dr and Mrs Victor J Weinstein Mr and Mrs Bennett Weinstock David and Candace Weir Foundation Wells Fargo Wealth Management James A Wells PhD Mr Woody Wen Mr Joel P Whidden Mrs Barbara Why Dr Janet M Widra Mr and Mrs Frank H Wildt William D E M Lane Foundation Mr James Wilson Mr Benjamin J Winter Mrs Geraldine Wong Mr Rod Wood Jill and Nick Woodman Mr Connor Woodson Bob Wright Ms Meredith Wright Zaza Wu Y Knot Enterprises Ms Barbara M Young Ms Anna Zappettini Mr Jay Zises Mr Seymour W Zises Broadway Premier Circle The Broadway Premier Circle is a group of loyal Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets customers who have made a special donation in support of cancer research The Premier Circle offers members priority access to tickets and other benefits Ms Lawson P Allen Mr Dean V Ambrose Mr and Mrs Roger Baumann Ms Jill C Bee Mr James Bennett Mr and Mrs Edgar F Berner Mr and Mrs Robert and Eugenie Birch Ms Mindee Blanco Mr Harold Block Mr Richard L Bowen Mrs Lisa Braun Glazer Ms Lisa Bullock Mr and Mrs Frank M Bumstead Mr and Mrs Paul Ciminello Mr Philip J Clark Ms Deborah Clayman and Mr Lawrence Raiman Mr and Mrs Samuel T Cohen Ms Brenda L Crane Ms Dorothy D Amato Mr and Mrs Philip DeToledo Mr and Mrs Larry D Droppa Mr Michael L Dweck Mr and Mrs Dexter D Earle Bradford Edgerton MD Mr and Mrs Steven H Erlbaum Discovery Society Discovery Society members are valued supporters who have provided for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation through planned gifts These donations provide a vital source of support and fuel future breakthroughs against cancer Mr Robert Ettl Mr and Mrs Samuel M Feder Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Mr and Mrs Mark Fishman Ms Linda Frankel Mr and Mrs Norman Freidkin Ms Mary Ann Frenzel Mr and Mrs Otto N Frenzel III Mr Leonard R Ganz Mr Paul D Goldenheim Mr William Grabe Ms Aileen J Grebow Ms Eleanor Gross Ms Penelope P Harris Mr and Mrs Gary Hellinger Mr Andre Hunter Dr Phyllis Hyde Mr Scott R Isdaner Mrs Carolyn June Kaplan Mr Robert Kaplan Mr and Mrs Samuel L Katz Mr and Mrs Stephen F Kaufman Mr and Mrs James H Kimenker Ms Kathleen King Ms Kathryn King Mr Gerold F L Klauer Mr Michael W Klein Ms Abby Kohnstamm Mr Richard A Konigsberg Mr and Mrs Kyle S Kozloff Mr and Mrs Jeremy R Kramer Mr Lawrence J Kramer Ms Sandra Krause Ms Wendy Kreeger Ms Ellen S Lane Ms Ann E Levine Mr and Mrs William Guy Levy Mr and Mrs Steven A Lieberman Kenneth J Livak PhD Mr and Mrs James I Magid Mr and Mrs Henry Mannix III Marble Fund Inc Dr Malcolm L Margolin Ms Carole Middleton Mr Russell C Minkoff Mrs Dorothy Neustadter Mrs Cindy Pearlstein Ms Agnes Peelle Mr Sheldon Pressler Mrs Sheila Robbins Mr Joseph D Roxe Mr and Mrs Donald Sage Mr and Mrs Norman G Samet Mr Gary M Saretsky Mr and Mrs Jerry Saslow Ms Rita Sherr The Sidewater Family Foundation Inc Mr and Mrs Samuel Sidewater Mr and Mrs Steven J Sidewater Mr Joseph M Siegman Mr and Mrs Harvey Silverman Ms 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DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Ways to Give 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Financial Summary Fiscal Year 2017 As in previous years the financial activities of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation were audited by RMS US LLP Below is a snapshot of FY2017 ONLINE www damonrunyon org donate PHONE 1 877 7CANCER or 1 877 722 6237 For our complete audited financial statements please visit our website at WWW DAMONRUNYON ORG TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES TOTAL REVENUE 20 8 20 8 9 am 5 pm ET Monday to Friday MAIL Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation One Exchange Plaza 55 Broadway Suite 302 New York NY 10006 MILLION MILLION R E M E M B E R U S I N YO U R E S TAT E P L A N S Visit our website for more information www damonrunyon org get involved Award Programs 82 7 Fundraising 14 7 General Administration 2 6 Investment Return 46 4 Contributions 44 0 Misc Income 4 1 Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets 3 1 Bequests Trusts 2 4 D A M O N R U N YO N B R O A D WAY T I C K E T S D amon Runyon Broadway Tickets offers Broadway s best seats and the opportunity to support cutting edge cancer research at the same time Orchestra seats are available for even the most popular shows J oin our Premier Circle to enjoy benefits like priority access to tickets before they go on sale each month and more O ur Gift Certificates are perfect for holiday gifts as well as birthdays anniversaries or any occasion a fun night and a meaningful gift Summary of Balance Sheets 2016 Total Assets Total Liabilities Total Net Assets 2017 135 646 786 142 411 870 29 816 543 30 256 220 105 830 243 112 155 650 Call us for tickets and more at 212 455 0550 between 9 am and 5 pm Eastern Time Monday through Friday Learn more at www damonrunyon org Broadway Our overhead is paid from our endowment and Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets allowing 100 of your donation to support cancer research 42 43
DAMON RUN YON C A N C ER R ESEA R C H FOUN DATI O N Ways to Give 2017 ANNUAL REPO RT Financial Summary Fiscal Year 2017 As in previous years the financial activities of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation were audited by RMS US LLP Below is a snapshot of FY2017 ONLINE www damonrunyon org donate PHONE 1 877 7CANCER or 1 877 722 6237 For our complete audited financial statements please visit our website at WWW DAMONRUNYON ORG TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES TOTAL REVENUE 20 8 20 8 9 am 5 pm ET Monday to Friday MAIL Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation One Exchange Plaza 55 Broadway Suite 302 New York NY 10006 MILLION MILLION R E M E M B E R U S I N YO U R E S TAT E P L A N S Visit our website for more information www damonrunyon org get involved Award Programs 82 7 Fundraising 14 7 General Administration 2 6 Investment Return 46 4 Contributions 44 0 Misc Income 4 1 Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets 3 1 Bequests Trusts 2 4 D A M O N R U N YO N B R O A D WAY T I C K E T S D amon Runyon Broadway Tickets offers Broadway s best seats and the opportunity to support cutting edge cancer research at the same time Orchestra seats are available for even the most popular shows J oin our Premier Circle to enjoy benefits like priority access to tickets before they go on sale each month and more O ur Gift Certificates are perfect for holiday gifts as well as birthdays anniversaries or any occasion a fun night and a meaningful gift Summary of Balance Sheets 2016 Total Assets Total Liabilities Total Net Assets 2017 135 646 786 142 411 870 29 816 543 30 256 220 105 830 243 112 155 650 Call us for tickets and more at 212 455 0550 between 9 am and 5 pm Eastern Time Monday through Friday Learn more at www damonrunyon org Broadway Our overhead is paid from our endowment and Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets allowing 100 of your donation to support cancer research 42 43
100 of Your Donation Goes to Brilliant Scientists We pay our low overhead from Damon Runyon Broadway Tickets and our endowment For more information visit WWW DAMONRUNYON ORG GET INVOLVED ONE EXCHANGE PLAZA 55 Broadway Suite 302 New York New York 10006 1 877 7CANCER T 212 455 0500 F 212 455 0509 www damonrunyon org
