Meet the Committee Members

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Judging Committee:

Anna D. Barker, Ph.D. | Co-Chair

Chief Strategy Officer, Ellison Institute of Technology

Raju Kucherlapati (1)

Raju Kucherlapati, Ph.D. | Co-Chair

Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics & Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Webster Cavenee

Webster Cavenee, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego

Aleksandra Filipovic, M.D., Ph.D.

Head of Oncology, PureTech Health

Gary Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.

Senior Medical Advisor and Board Member, Global Coalition for Adaptive Research

Scott Lippman, M.D.

Distinguished Professor of Medicine & Associate Vice Chancellor for Cancer Research

Eva Martin, M.D.

Senior Director, Alliance and Asset Management, Roche Pharma Partnering

Tom-Miller

Tom Miller

Founder & Managing Partner, GreyBird Ventures

Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Libia F. Scheller, Ph.D., MBA

Global Head Oncology-Cooperative Groups & Strategic Alliances, Bayer Health Care Pharmaceuticals

Selection Committee:

Pamela Garzone

Pamela Garzone, Ph.D. | Co-Chair

Chief Development Officer, Anixa Biosciences

Raju Kucherlapati (1)

Raju Kucherlapati, Ph.D. | Co-Chair

Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics & Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Webster Cavenee

Webster Cavenee, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego

Aleksandra Filipovic, M.D., Ph.D.

Head of Oncology, PureTech Health

Daniel Johnson, Ph.D.

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Otolaryngology, UC San Francisco

Matthew Lawler

Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Blackbird Laboratories

Scott Lippman, M.D.

Distinguished Professor of Medicine & Associate Vice Chancellor for Cancer Research

Eva Martin, M.D.

Senior Director, Alliance and Asset Management, Roche Pharma Partnering

Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Michael Salgaller, Ph.D.

Supervisory Invention Development & Marketing Specialist, National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute

Fei Shen, Ph.D.

Managing Director, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund USA

Matt Tremblay, Ph.D.

CEO, Blackbird Laboratories

Investment Committee:

Jimmy Lu, J.D., MBA | Chair

Co-Founder, R3 Bio

Patty Obermaier

Vice President, US Health and Life Sciences, Microsoft

Chih-Kao Hu, Ph.D., MBA

Management Consultant, Qral Group

Kim Kamdar, Ph.D.

Managing Partner, Medical Excellence Capital

Beverly Lu, Ph.D.

Investment Manager, Health, Emerson Collective

Robbert Tepper

Robert Tepper, M.D.

Partner, Third Rock Ventures

Yajun Xu, Ph.D.

Managing Partner, Hongsen Capital

Brian Leyland-Jones, MBBS, Ph.D.

Chief Medical Officer, AIM-HI Accelerator Fund

Thea Tlsty, Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology, University of California San Francisco

Eifion Phillips, Ph.D., J.D.

Patent Attorney

Dimitra Georganopoulou, Ph.D.

Innovation – Investment | General Partner, Qral Ventures

Huijun (HJ) Yang, Ph.D.

President, Yang Management, Inc.

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