Team | Moores Cancer Center | Office of Translation Science

Meet MCC-OTS Leadership

Our goal is to establish and meet MCC-OTS aims, and operationalize programming aligned with our mission.

Rana McKay, MD

Director, Committee Chair

Angela Ballantyne, PhD

Administrative Lead

Divya Subramonian, PhD

Program Manager

Meet MCC-Steering Committee

We provide high level feedback on MCC-OTS programming to ensure alignment with office and MCC objectives and feedback on Cancer Center/Health Systems initiatives as they may integrate with MCC-OTS program initiatives.

Joseph Califano, MD

Center Director

Samir Gupta, MD

Lin Liu, PhD

Andrew Lowy, MD, FACS

Rana McKay, MD

Director, Committee Chair

Alfredo Molinolo, MD, PhD

Quyen Nguyen MD, PhD

Research Education & Training

Jesse Nodora, DrPH

Barbara Parker, MD

Sandip Patel, MD

Robert Signer, PhD

Judith Varner, PhD

Nicholas Webster, PhD

Meet MCC-OTS Liaisons

We lead monthly meetings, with the goal of bridging knowledge gaps, facilitating and promoting their team’s collaborative translational research. We also forge relationships with resource and technology point persons and invite key speakers to monthly team meetings, to promote team brainstorming and networking.

Lastly, we work with MCC-OTS leadership to coordinate events, provide feedback on their teams’ interests and needs and establish team goals and metrics aligned with the MCC-OTS mission to catalyze translational research initiatives.

Disease Team Liaisons

Ah-Reum Jeong, MD

Blood & Marrow Transplant

Sarah Blair, MD, FACS

Breast

David Piccioni, MD, PhD

Central Nervous System

Shanglei Liu, MD, MAS

Colorectal

Shumei Kato, MD

Experimental Therapeutics

Adam Burgoyne, MD, PhD

Gastrointestinal

Herve Tiriac, PhD

Gastrointestinal

Pradiptha Binder, MD

Gynecologic Oncology

Pablo Tamayo, PhD

Head and Neck Cancer

Ben Heyman, MD

Hematology

James Urbanic, MD

Lung

Kyle Edmonds, MD, FAAHPM

Palliative Care

Peter Zage, MD, PhD

Pediatrics

Brent T. Mausbach, PhD

Psychiatry / Psychology

Jason Sicklick, MD, FACS

Sarcoma

Christina Jamieson, PhD

Urology

Soo Park, MD

Cutaneous

Research Team Liaisons

Vineet Bafna, PhD

Structural and Functional Genomics (SFG)

Kathleen Curtius, PhD

Cancer Control (CC)

Shiri Gur-Cohen, PhD

Hematologic Malignancies (HEM)

David Schlaepfer, PhD

Solid Tumor Therapeutics (STT)

Amir Zarrinpar, MD, PhD

Cancer Biology and Signaling (CBS)

Consortium Partners

Teresa Monkkonen

Become a MCC-OTS Liaison

Join this exciting, cutting-edge effort to help catalyze translational research efforts within your disease team or research program.

MCC-OTS Liaison positions are still open, please reach out to us:

Rana McKay
rmckay@health.ucsd.edu

Divya Subramonian
MCC-OTS@health.ucsd.edu

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