A Team of Experts
Our advisory boards are made up of scientists, clinicians, and other specialists with experience in studying and treating desmoid tumors or an expertise in oncology and related fields. Our advisors are critical to our key programs and moving forward in our mission.
Get to know our Medical Advisory Board and Scientific Advisory Board below.
Medical Advisory Board
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Aaron Weiss, DO
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Maine Medical Center
Chair, The DTRF Medical Advisory Board
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Robert Benjamin, MD
Clinical Professor, Sarcoma, University of Texas- MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Rashmi Chugh, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Rogel Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Mrinal Gounder, MD
Associate Professor and Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Rick Haas, MD, PhD
Division of Radiotherapy, Netherlands Cancer Institute
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Candace L. Haddox, MD
Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Peter Hohenberger, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgical Oncology, Mannheim University Medical Center, University of Heidelberg
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Bernd Kasper, MD, PhD
Professor, Mannheim University Medical Center, Interdisciplinary Tumor Center, Sarcoma Unit
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Robert Lefkowitz, MD
Associate Professor, Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Christian Meyer, MD, PhD
Instructor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Seth Pollack, MD
Director of the Sarcoma Program, Lurie Cancer Center, Northwestern University
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Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD
Director, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Sameer Rastogi, MD
Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, AIIMS, New Delhi
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Chandrajit P. Raut, MD, M.Sc.
Director, Surgical Oncology, Sarcoma, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Vinod Ravi, MD
Associate Professor, Vascular Sarcomas, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Silvia Stacchiotti, MD
Medical Oncologist, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Dei Tumori
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Keila Torres, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Scientific Advisory Board
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Aimee Crago, MD, PhD
Assistant Attending Surgeon, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Chair, The DTRF Scientific Advisory Board
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Mushriq Al-Jazrawe, PHD
Scientific Director, High Throughput Sciences, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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Benjamin Alman, MD
Department Chair, Orthopedic Surgery, Duke University
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Jesse Boehm, PhD
Chief Science Officer, Break Through Cancer Principal Investigator, MIT and Broad Institute
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Mrinal Gounder, MD
Associate Professor and Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Alessandro Gronchi, MD
Chief of Sarcoma Service, Chair of the Department of Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (National Cancer Institute) Milan, Italy
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Alexander Lazar, MD, PhD
Director, Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Selective (Soft Tissue) Pathology Fellowship Training Program
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Kelly Mercier, PhD
Adjunct associate professor at Duke University and Diagnostics Regional Medical Lead for Daiichi Sankyo
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Roel Nusse, PhD
Professor of Cancer Research and of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Program Director of Stanford’s Cancer Stem Cell Research Program, and member of Stanford’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Matt van de Rijn, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center