Richard Larson, M.D., is a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. He has acted as a consultant or adviser to Agios, Amgen, Ariad Pharmaceuticals/Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Astellas Pharma, Celgene/Bristol-Myers Squibb, CVS Caremark, Epizyme, MorphoSys and Novartis. And he has received clinical research support from Astellas, Celgene, Cellectis, Daiichi Sankyo, Forty Seven, Gilead Sciences, Novartis and Rafael Pharmaceuticals, as well as royalties from UpToDate.
Frank Laukien, Ph.D., is president and CEO of Bruker Corporation, as well as a shareholder of the company. Bruker is a Nasdaq-traded life-science tools company that makes and sells scientific instruments, which can also be used for cancer research, among many other uses and applications. Cancer research tools represent less than 1 percent of Bruker’s revenue.
Steven H. Lin, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He has received grants from BeyondSpring and Hitachi Chemical Diagnostics. And he serves on advisory boards for STCube, BeyondSpring and AstraZeneca.
Guido Marcucci, M.D., is a professor of medicine at City of Hope National Medical Center.
Jayesh Mehta, M.D., is a professor of medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of medicine at CUIMC.
Joshua Ofman, M.D., is chief medical officer at GRAIL and is an equity owner of the company.
Patrizia Paterlini, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of oncology at University Paris Descartes and a founder and shareholder of Rarecells; the company is the exclusive licensee of the ISET patents, which Paterlini co-invented.
Kenneth Pienta, M.D., is a professor of urology, oncology, and pharmacology and molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is a consultant for Cue Biopharma.
Samuel Sia, Ph.D., is a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University and co-founder of Rover Diagnostics.
Seema Singhal, M.D., is a professor of medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
B. Douglas Smith, M.D., is a professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., is executive chairman of ImmunityBio; adjunct professor of surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles; visiting professor at Imperial College London; and executive chairman of the Los Angeles Times.
David P. Steensma, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He has no conflict-of-interest disclosures directly related to this work. Steensma acts as a consultant for Pfizer, Cellarity, Taiho, Onconova Therapeutics and Celgene/Bristol-Meyers Squibb.
John Wrangle, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., is Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer at Providence St. Joseph Health.
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