Research Advisory Network
The Research Advisory Network (RAN) actively engages with PBTF leadership to provide highly informed perspectives on the biomedical research enterprise. The RAN is an important facet of PBTF’s partnership with the research community. RAN members contribute insights that help shape PBTF’s funding priorities and evaluate the impact of our research investment on the lives of children diagnosed with a brain tumor, as well as on the disease that threatens them. Members volunteer to serve a three-year, renewable term.
*David Adams, PhD, Sanger Institute, UK
Senior Group Leader/Head Experimental Cancer Genetics
*Kenneth Aldape, MD, National Cancer Institute
Senior Investigator Pathology
Eric Bouffet, MD, University of Toronto
Professor, Pediatrics
Tom Curran, PhD, FRS, Children’s Research Institute
Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Director
Gerald Grant, MD, FACS, Stanford School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
*Darren Hargrave, MB.ChB (Hons), MD, MRCP, FRCPCH, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Professor Neuro Oncology
Cynthia Hawkins, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Sick Kids
Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Eugene Hwang, MD, Children’s National Health System
Attending, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
*Nada Jabado, MD, PhD, McGill University, Canada
Professor Pediatrics
*Mark Kieran, MD, PhD, Day One Biopharmaceuticals
VP Clinical Development
Roger McLendon, MD, PhD, Duke University
Professor, Pathology
Duane Mitchell, MD, PhD, University of Florida
Phyllis Kottler Friedman Professor, Neurosurgery
*Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology
Karin Muraszko, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
Chair of Neurosurgery
Roger Packer, MD, Children’s National Health System
Senior Vice President, Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine
Stefan Pfister, MD, University of Heidelberg
Professor, Pediatrics
Joanna Phillips, MD, PhD, UCSF
Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery and Pathology
Michael Prados, MD, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Professor, Neurological Surgery
Joshua Rubin, MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis
Professor, Pediatrics, Hematology and Oncology
James Rutka, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Sick Kids
Professor and Chair, Surgery
Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD, Sanford-Burnham Prebys Medical Research Institute
Director and Professor, Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program
*PLGA Fund at PBTF Advisory Member