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DEPARTMENT OF WAR - CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Vernal Branch
Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation

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

Eduard Chekmenev, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

Kevin Cheung, M.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Washington Medical Center

J. Mark Cline, D.V.M, Ph.D.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Erika Crosby, Ph.D.
Duke University

Vincent Cryns, M.D.
University of Wisconsin‐Madison

Brian Czerniecki, M.D., Ph.D.
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

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

Farrokh Dehdashti, M.D.
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Mohanish Deshmukh, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina

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

Andrei Goga, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco

Hani Goodarzi, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco

Michelle Holmes, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Peter Lee, M.D.
City of Hope

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

Yibin Kang, Ph.D.
Princeton University

Carolyn Klinge, Ph.D.
University of Louisville

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

Keith Knutson, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic

Debbie Laxague, R.N.
National Breast Cancer Coalition

Hui‐Wen Lo, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Health Science Center

Richard Lopez, M.D.
Duke University

Wanda Lucas
Georgetown Breast Cancer Advocates; National Breast Cancer Coalition

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

Carol Matyka
CARE Advocate Network

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

Andy Minn, M.D., Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Edward Nelson
University of California, Irvine

Venu Raman, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University

Jianghong Rao, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine

Deepali Sachdev, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota

Tiffany Seagroves, Ph.D.
Tulane University

Dipali Sharma, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University

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

Nanjoo Suh, Ph.D.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Takemi Tanaka, Ph.D.
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University

Alex Toker, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Melissa Troester, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina

Kyoji Tsuchikama, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Ratna Vadlamudi, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Seth Wander, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital

Alana Welm, Ph.D.
The University of Utah

Qin Yan, Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine

Fiona Yull, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University

Xiang Zhang, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

Last updated Thursday, February 19, 2026