The Huntsman Cancer Institute External Advisory Board (EAB) serves in a consultative capacity and is charged to provide planning and oversight guidance for HCI to strengthen our cancer research programs. The EAB evaluates the scientific merit of HCI's cancer research programs and their standing in the national and international scientific communities as well as the quality of clinical and translational programs and the overall direction of HCI.
![]() | Edward Benz, MD President, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pathology Harvard Medical School |
![]() | Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD Nobel Laureate Professor, Morris Herzstein Biochemistry and Biophysics Department University of California, San Francisco |
![]() | Michael Caligiuri, MD Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center CEO, James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute JL Marakas Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation Professor of Cancer Research The Ohio State University |
![]() | Robert DuWors, MPA Deputy Director, Administration and Finance Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center University of California at Los Angeles |
![]() | Elaine Fuchs, PhD Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator The Rockefeller University |
| Ernest T. Hawk, MD, MPH |
![]() | Timothy R. Rebbeck, PhD |
| Max S. Wicha, MD |
Past Members
Alfred G. Gilman, MD, PhD, Nobel Laureate
Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished
Chair in Molecular Neuropharmacology
Distinguished Chair in Molecular
Neuropharmacy
in honor of Harold B. Crasilneck, PhD
Regental Professor
Executive Vice President of
Academic Affairs and Provost Dean
Professor and Chairman
Department of Pharmacology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Bernadine Healy, MD
Member, Presidents Council of
Advisors on Science and Technology
Former Director
National Institutes of Health
Former President and CEO
American Red Cross
Stanley J. Korsmeyer, MD
Sidney Farber Professor of Pathology and Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, Program in Molecular Oncology
Dana-Faber Cancer Institute
Bernard Levin, MD
Professor, Gastrointestinal Medicine
and Nutrition
Vice President, Cancer Prevention and
Population Sciences
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Arnold J. Levine, MD
Former President, Rockefeller University
Professor, Simons Center for Systems
Biology, Institute for Advanced Study
Professor, Pediatrics and Biochemistry
Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Rae Ann Paden
Associate Director, Research Administration
University of New Mexico Cancer Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Saul A. Rosenberg, MD
Maureen Lyles D'Ambrogio
Professor of Medicine and Radiation Oncology, Emeritus
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Richard L. Schilsky, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chairman, Cancer and Leukemia Group B
Biological Sciences Division
University of Chicago
Phillip A. Sharp, PhD, Nobel Laureate
Salvadore E. Luria Professor of Biology
Director, McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ajit Varki, MD
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Director, Glycobiology Research and Training Center
Former Director
University of California, San Diego
Cancer Center
Robert C. Young, MD
Chancellor, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania








