JAXCC Leadership & Administration

Leadership
Director: Karolina Palucka, M.D., Ph.D.
Interim Deputy Director: Jeffrey Chuang, Ph.D.
Co-Program Leaders: Olga Anczukow, Ph.D., Ron Korstanje, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Research Administration: Susan Airhart, B.S.
Associate Director, Shared Resources: Mark Adams Ph.D., Charlie Wray, Ph.D.
Associate Director, CRTEC: Charlie Wray, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Cancer Research Career Development: Carol Bult, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Translational Impact: Jens Rueter, M.D.

Center Administration
Operations Manager, Research Administration: Swaran Nandini, Ph.D., PMP
Assistant Director, Research Administration: Ashley Mrdelja, MEd

Finance & Grant Administration
Associate Director JAXCC Finance & Senior Director, Financial Planning & Budgeting: Jay Vetelino
Director, Sponsored Research Administration: Diego R. Vazquez, MPA, CRA
Senior Grants Financial Analyst: Jenifer Kennedy, CRA
Director, Research Program Development: Anna Lisa Lucido, PhD, PMP
Senior Scientific Writer: Iiro Taneli Helenius, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Director, Research Reporting & Analytics: Barrett Lunt
Research Administration Systems Analyst: Jeremy Dickson-Smith

Advancement
Senior Vice President, Advancement: Gina Rodriguez

Senior Director, Development: Nancy Fox

Facilities
Senior Director, Facilities Services: John Fitzpatrick, PE

External Advisory Committee

Lisa M. Coussens, Ph.D., FAACR
Associate Director for Basic Research
Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Sciences University 

Wendy Law, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Administration
Fred Hutch / University of Washington Cancer Consortium

John Termini, Ph.D. - Chair
Associate Director of Shared Resources, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine

David Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center
Professor, Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research

Yolanda Sanchez, Ph.D.
Director, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

Matthew Vander Heiden, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Lester Wolfe (1919) Professor of Molecular Biology
Professor of Biology

Sheila Stewart, Ph.D.
Gerty Cori Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology
Professor, Department of Medicine