The Scientific Review Council will review the research proposals submitted to the Alliance and make recommendations to the Prize Advisory Board and Governing Board for approval of the winners. The Council will also advise on scientific matters and policies, including research needs and opportunities that may be targeted for funding.
Endowed Professor of Cell Biology
Director, Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment Institute
Director, Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center
Co-Leader, Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program
Albert Einstein Cancer Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hermann M. Biggs Professor,
Chair of the Department of Pathology
NYU School of Medicine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Medicine
Executive Vice President and Vice Dean for Science
Chief Scientific Officer
NYU Langone Medical Center
Professor
Departments of Oncological Sciences and Dermatology
Cancer Mechanisms Program Co-leader
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ward Coleman Chair in Cancer Research
Director of Immunotherapy, Department of Hematology and Oncology
Co-Director, Cancer Immunology Program
Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Professor Cancer Research
Professor of Pharmacology
Director, Pharmacology Ph.D. Program
Associate Director, Basic Science
Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
Director, Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone Health
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Director, International Sc2.0 Project
Director, NHGRI CEGS “Center for Synthetic Regulatory Genomics”
Robert & Harriet Heilbrunn Professor
Head of Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology
The Rockefeller University
Professor Adjunct, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture
Associate Professor, Breast Service, Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Regius Chair, Precision Medicine
Scientific Director, Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre
Institute of Cancer Sciences
University of Glasgow
President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York
Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, Columbia University
Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Adjunct Professor, Cancer Biology in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
2013 Breakthrough Prize Winner
Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research
Professor of Genetics and Dermatology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Cell Biology; Physiology and Neuroscience; and Psychiatry
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
NYU Langone School of Medicine
Percy and Joanne Uris Professor of Clinical Medicine,
Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology,
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology,
Director, Institute for Cancer Genetics,
Columbia University Medical Center
Head, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology
Grayer Family Chair
Department of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Director, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Associate Director, Institute for Computational Biomedicine
Associate Program Director, Clinical & Translational Science Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology and Cell Biology, and Systems Biology
Institute for Cancer Genetics
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University
Executive Director, Therapeutic Area Genetics-Oncology
Regeneron Genetics Center
Professor, The Stem Cell Program at Boston Children’s Hospital
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Department of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Chief Executive Officer, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Executive Vice Chair, Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation
Member, Developmental Biology Program and Center for Stem Cell Biology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Core member, New York Genome Center
Laurence Joseph Dineen Chair in Leukemia Research
Chief, Molecular Cancer Medicine Service, HOPP
Deputy Physician-in-Chief, Translational Research, Memorial Hospital
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology
Director, Physician Scientist Training Program
Weill Cornell Medicine
Pediatric Neuro-oncology Attending
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine
Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction
Weill Cornell Medicine
Executive Director, GMTEC and Director, Sloan Kettering Institute
Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Member, Cancer Biology and Genetics Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor of Computational Biology and Medicine
Weill Cornell Graduate College
Icahn Scholar
Ward-Coleman Chair in Cancer Research
Professor and Chair, Department of Oncological Sciences
Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute
Director, Mount Sinai Cancer, Mount Sinai Health System
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Co-Founder, Innate Biologics
Professor of the Gene Expression and Regulation, The Wistar Institute
Professor of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Sr. Group Leader, Prague & Boston, IOCB (Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Director, Center for Cell Engineering & Gene Transfer and Gene Expression Laboratory
Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Professor
Department of Oncological Sciences
Tisch Cancer Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Therapeutics
Director, Cancer Center
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Chief Scientist, Lustgarten Foundation
Meyer Director, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
Charles Nowiszewski Professor of Cancer Biology, Department of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
The Alliance also relies on the expertise of Guest Reviewers who are selected annually to assist in the vetting of scientific proposals. Guest Reviewers include previous Pershing Square Sohn Prize winners and other talented scientists in the Alliance’s community.