2010 BEN AND CATHERINE IVY FOUNDATION RESEARCH AWARDS SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS

Michael Berens, PhD
Ivy Foundation Strategic Advisory Team
Senior Investigator and Director, Cancer and Cell Biology
TGen Research Institute

Alessandra Cesano, MD
Ivy Foundation Scientific Reviewer Network 2009
Chief Medical Officer
Nodality, Inc. 

Timothy F. Cloughesy, MD
Ivy Foundation Strategic Advisory Team
Director, Neuro-Oncology Program
Professor, Department of Neurology
University of California, Los Angeles

George Coukos, MD, PhD
Director, Ovarian Cancer Research Center
Associate Chief, Division of Gynecologic Oncology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Pennsylvania

Brett J. Davis, MBA
Ivy Foundation Strategic Advisory Team
Senior Director, Strategy and Business Development
Health Sciences at Oracle

Jonathan D. Dewey
HHMI-Ivy Fellow
Duke University School of Medicine

Giulio F. Draetta, MD, PhD
Deputy Director
Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science
Department of Medical Oncology
Chief Research Business Development Officer Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Greg Foltz, MD
Ivy Foundation Scientific Reviewer Network 2009
Director, Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment
Swedish Neuroscience Institute

Peter A. Forsyth, MD, FRCPC
Dept. of Oncology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Clark H. Smith Brain Tumor Center
University of Calgary 

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir MD, PhD
Ivy Foundation Strategic Advisory Team
Director, Molecular Imaging Program (MIPS)
Director, Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection
Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering
Stanford University

G. Yancey Gillespie, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Microbiology and Cell Biology
Director, Brain Tumor SPORE
Division of Neurosurgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Richard Gilbertson, MD, PhD
Ivy Foundation Scientific Reviewer Network 2008 & 2009
Director, Molecular Clinical Trials Core
Co-Leader, Neurobiology & Brain Tumor Program
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

James R. Heath, PhD
Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry
Director, NanoSystems Biology Cancer Center
California Institute of Technology

Andrei Iagaru, MD
Clinical Instructor, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology
Stanford University

Catherine Ivy
Founder and President, Board of Directors
The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation

Sharon Lamb, RN
Treasurer, Board of Directors
The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation

Frederick F. Lang, Jr., MD
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Director of Clinical Research, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Keith L. Ligon, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Center for Molecular Oncologic Pathology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Duane A. Mitchell, MD, PhD
Ivy Foundation Scientific Reviewer Network 2009
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Associate Director, Duke Brain Tumor
Immunotherapy Program
The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center
Duke University Medical Center

Joseph Nevins, PhD
Barbara Levine Professor of Cancer Genomics
Director, IGSP Center for Applied
Genomics & Technology
Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy

Catherine Nutt, PhD
Ivy Foundation Scientific Reviewer Network 2008
Assistant Professor in Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Assistant Molecular Pathologist
Massachusetts General Hospital

Alison M. O’Neill, MD
Ivy Foundation Scientific Reviewer Network 2008
Vice President of Medical Affairs
Transmolecular, Inc.

David Parkinson, MD
Ivy Foundation Scientific Reviewer Network 2008
President and Chief Executive Officer
Nodality, Inc. 

Kendra Peterson, MD
Secretary, Board of Directors
The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation 

Heidi Phillips, PhD
Ivy Foundation Scientific Reviewer Network 2008
Senior Scientist
Genentech, Inc. 

Michael D. Prados, MD
Professor in Residence of Neurological Surgery,
Charles B. Wilson, MD Endowed Chair
Director of Translational Research in Neuro-Oncology
University of California, San Francisco

Ralph Puchalski, PhD
Research Alliance Manager
Allen Institute for Brain Science

Joanne Salcido, PhD
Research Director
The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation 

Stephen M. Schleicher
HHMI-Ivy Fellow
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 

William C. Timmer, PhD
Ivy Foundation Scientific Reviewer Network 2009
Program Director (Health Science Administrator), Clinical Grants and Contracts Branch (CGCB)
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Robert Tufel, MSW, MPH
Executive Director
The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation

Qingyang (Kristy) Yuan
HHMI-Ivy Fellow
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine