Selection Committee

Damon Runyon Fellowship Award

CHAIR

Kathryn A. O'Donnell, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Co-Leader, Development and Cancer Program
Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

VICE CHAIR

Ken H. Cadwell, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

David Bilder, PhD
Professor 
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
J. Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Hematology and Oncology Department of Medicine
The Tisch Cancer Institute
Microscopy CORE
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York
Xinwei Cao, PhD
Associate Member
Developmental Neurobiology Department
Comprehensive Cancer Center
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee
Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD
Professor
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California

Gianna E. Hammer, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Utah Health
School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah

Daniel F. Jarosz, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology
Department of Developmental Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Stanford, California
Katrin Karbstein, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar
Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
Scripps Research
Jupiter, Florida
Raymond E. Moellering, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Alfonso Mondragón, PhD
Ethel and John Lindgren Professor
Director of the Structural Biology Facility
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Joshua C. Munger, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department of Microbiology and Immunology Rochester Medical Center
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, New York
Akinyemi I. Ojesina, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Arun Radhakrishnan, PhD 
Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Rajat Rohatgi, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine (Oncology)
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Carla Rothlin, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar
Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Pharmacology
Yale Cancer Center
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Agnel Sfeir, PhD
Paine Webber Chair in Cancer Genetics
Member, Molecular Biology Program
Sloan Kettering Institute
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York 
David R. Sherwood, PhD
Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Professor and Professor of Biology
Co-Director Regeneration Next Initiative
Department of Biology
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina