Council for Extramural Grants

The Council is a multidisciplinary panel of mid-level and senior scientists, most of whom have served on the Peer Review Committees. The principal responsibilities of the Council are to set the payline for the various committees and to advise the Society on research policy issues and health professional training. Members base their recommendations for funding on the relative merit of the applications, the amount of available funds and the Society's objectives. Stakeholders, individuals with a personal interest in cancer, are full voting members of the Council.

Mary C. Beckerle, PhD, Chair
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Gregory Bielawski, Stakeholder
Wheaton, IL

Deborah J. Bowen, PhD
Boston University, Boston, MA

Myles A. Brown, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Steven J. Burakoff, MD
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY

Linda S. Elting, DrPH
University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Olivera J. Finn, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Susan M. Fischer, PhD
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Smithville, TX

Susan L. Forsburg, PhD
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Suzanne A. W. Fuqua, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 

Joan Haase, PhD, RN
Indiana University, Carmel, IN

William N. Hait, MD, PhD
Johnson and Johnson Family Companies, Raritan, NJ

Stephen S. Hecht, PhD
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Scott W. Hiebert, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Paul Jacobsen, PhD
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Karen Kayser, PhD, MSW
Boston College, Chestnut Hill

Fadlo Raja Khuri, MD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Barbara M. Kubiak, Stakeholder
Warren, OH

Cheryl Miree, Stakeholder
Tampa, FL

Denise Montell, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Ann Butler Nattinger, MD, MPH
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

John T. Schiller, PhD
NIH/National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

John E Tavis, PhD
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO

Graham C. Walker, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 

Marian L. Waterman, PhD
University of California, Irvine, CA

Danny R. Welch, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL