Cancer Center at Illinois Advisory Committees
External Advisory Committee
Rae Ann Paden
Associate Director, Research Administration and Community Relations, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center
Michelle Barton
Professor of Oncological Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University
Co-Director, Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center, Knight Cancer Institute
Otis Brawley
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University
Steven Clinton
Professor, Department of Urology, The Ohio State University
Wendy Law
Associate Director of Administration, Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium
Associate Vice President of Cancer Consortium Programs, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Washington
Richard Levenson
Professor and Vice Chair for Strategic Technologies, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis
Edison Liu
President Emeritus and Professor, The Jackson Laboratory
External Advisory Committee Chair
Milan Mrksich
Henry Wade Rodgers Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Cell & Molecular Biology, Northwestern University
Former Vice President for Research, Northwestern University
Timothy Ratliff
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Pathobiology, Purdue University
Former Director, Purdue University Center for Cancer Research
Robert Winn
Director and Lipman Chair in Oncology, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
Senior Associate Dean for Cancer Innovation and Professor of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University
Denis Wirtz
Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
Vice Provost for Research and Director, Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center, The Johns Hopkins University
Internal Advisory Council
Milan Bagchi
Director, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Rashid Bashir
Dean, Grainger College of Engineering
Stephen Boppart
Director, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute
Mark Cohen
Dean & Chief Academic Officer, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Chair, Internal Advisory Council
Benita Katzenellenbogen
Maybelle Leland Swanlund Professor Emerita, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Special Advisor to the Director
Paul Kenis
Director, School of Chemical Sciences
