The KidneyCAN Scientific Advisory Board

Hans Hammers, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Co-leader of clinical research of the Kidney Cancer Program at Simmons Cancer Center.

Toni Choueiri, MD

Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary (GU) Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Chair and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Eric Jonasch, MD

Professor, Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

James Brugarolas, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Internal Medicine, Cancer Biology, Genetics, Development and Disease. The founding Director of the Kidney Cancer Program at UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center and Principal Investigator of one of two Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) in kidney cancer in the U.S.

Ramaprasad Srinivasan, M.D., Ph.D.

Investigator Urologic Oncology Branch Head, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics Section NCI

Payal Kapur, M.D.

Dr. Kapur is on faculty in the Department of Pathology and Urology at UT Southwestern and the Group Leader of Genitourinary Pathology and the Co-Leader of the Kidney Cancer Program at Simmons Cancer Center.

Marc Dror Michaelson, MD, PhD

Director, MGH Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program

Gennady Bratslavsky, MD

Professor and Chair of Urology Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Division Chief of Upstate Urology at 550 Harrison Division Chief of Urologic Male Health Director of Prostate Cancer Program Department Chief of Adult Urology Clinic Department Chief of Urologic Oncology

Mehdi Mollapour, PhD

Professor, Vice Chair for Translational Research and Director of Renal Cancer Biology Program for the Department of Urology. Adjunct Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Alexander Spyridon Baras, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Director, Pathology Informatics Associate Professor of Pathology Johns Hopkins Medicine

Mehmet Asim Bilen MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology Emory University School of Medicine Associate Medical Director, Phase I Unit Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University

Dr. Rachel Giles

Staff, Internal Medicine Dept. Nephrology and Hypertension
University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Chair – IKCC Board

Eric Singer, MD, MA, FACS

Urologic Oncologist