Members
Steering Committee
Christopher Flowers, M.D.
Consortium Director
Salyka Sengsayadeth, M.D.
Veterans Affairs representative
Tatiana Tate
Consumer advocate
Consumer Advocates
A highly dedicated and experienced group of four consumer advocates will play an active role in the decision-making for the consortium.
Brooke George
Medulloblastoma
Family support coordinator of The Cure Starts Now Foundation and board member of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
Michael Holtz
Colorectal cancer (CRC)
Board member and fundraising director for Man Up to Cancer and also involved with Fight Colorectal Cancer Foundation
Janet Schuurman
Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)
Advocate for leukemia research through the Leukemia Research Foundation, where she is on the Patient Advisory Committee
Tatiana Tate
Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL)
President and founder of Chemo Divas Foundation who is dedicated to improving the lives of lymphoma patients
Co-Investigators
Gheath Al-Atrash, D.O., Ph.D.
Physician-scientist with expertise in translational development of immunotherapies for AML
Daniel Benedetti, M.D.
Bioethicist and pediatric hemato-oncologist
Cathy Eng, M.D.
Medical oncologist with expertise in colorectal cancer and young adult cancers
Vidya Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D.
Pediatric researcher with experience in mouse models of medulloblastoma and neuroblastoma
Carrie Kitko, M.D.
Pediatric hemato-oncologist with clinical expertise in cellular therapy and childhood cancers
Jeffrey Molldrem, M.D.
Physician-scientist and a pioneer in developing TCR-like antibodies
Jeffrey Rathmell, Ph.D.
Researcher with expertise in extracellular cues that influence lymphocyte death and differentiation
Badri Roysam, D.Sc.
Electrical engineer with expertise in image analysis, computer vision and machine learning
Salyka Sengsayadeth, M.D.
Veterans affairs representative and hemato-oncologist with expertise in cellular therapy and military health
Xiling Shen, Ph.D.
Electrical engineer who developed patient-derived micro-organosphere technology
Ryan Sun, Ph.D.
Biostatistician with expertise in statistical methodologies
Linghua Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
Computational biologist with expertise in computational genomics, immuno-oncology, immunogenomics and single cell and spatial computational biology
Consortium Administrators
Alison Woo, M.S.
awoo@mdanderson.org
Kyung Hee Chang, Ph.D.
kchang6@mdanderson.org