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DEPARTMENT OF WAR - CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Shawn Bratton, Ph.D.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Christine Carpenter, Ed.S.
Iowa Breast Cancer Edu-action

Eduard Chekmenev, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

Jay Debnath, M.D.
University of California, San Francisco

Mohanish Deshmukh, Ph.D.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Silvia Formenti, M.D.
Weill Cornell Medical College

Zev Gartner, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco

Cyrus Ghajar, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Carolyn Klinge, Ph.D.
University of Louisville

Simon Knott, Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Keith Knutson, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic

Phoebus Lin, Ph.D.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

H. Kim Lyerly, M.D.
Duke University

Linda Malkas, Ph.D.
City of Hope

Stuart Martin, Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Lali Medina-Kauwe, Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Marylinn Minor
National Breast Cancer Coalition

Michael Press, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Southern California

Venu Raman, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Tiffany Seagroves, Ph.D.
Tulane University

Shiladitya Sengupta, Ph.D.
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology

Dipali Sharma, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University

Lalita Shevde-Samant, Ph.D.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Shelley Tworoger, Ph.D.
Oregon Health and Science University

Qin Yan, Ph.D.
Yale University

Xiang (Shawn) Zhang, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

Jean Zhao, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Last updated Thursday, November 6, 2025