When evaluating proposals for research funding, or assessing making a call for specific types of research for basic biomedical research grants, the IWMF relies on two committees - the Scientific Advisory Committee, and the Research Committee. The Advisory Committee is comprised of top WM researchers from around the world, and their mission is to evaluate and vet all applications for funding that come to the IWMF. The Research Committee reviews the Advisory Committee's recommendations, evaluates the viability of the proposals and the availability of funding, and then forwards the proposal to the IWMF Board of Trustees for final approval.
Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)
Name | Medical Institution | Website |
Stephen Ansell, MD, PhD (Chair, IWMF SAC) | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota | www.mayoclinic.org |
Bart Barlogie, MD, PhD | Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York | www.mountsinai.org |
James R. Berenson, MD | Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research, West Hollywood, California | www.imbcr.org |
Morton Coleman, MD | Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York | www.nyp.org |
Meletios Dimopoulos, MD | Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece | www.school.med.uoa.gr |
Stanley Frankel, MD | Columbia University, New York, New York | www.cumc.columbia.edu |
Morie Gertz, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota | www.mayoclinic.org |
Irene Ghobrial, MD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts | www.dana-farber.org |
Eva Kimby, MD | Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden | ki.se/en/startpage |
Robert Kyle, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota | www.mayoclinic.org |
Véronique Leblond, MD, PhD | Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France | www.pitiesalpetriere.aphp.fr |
Gwen L. Nichols, MD | The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Rye Brook, New York | www.lls.org |
Roger Owen, MD | St. James's Institute of Oncology, Leeds, United Kingdom | www.leedsth.nhs.uk |
Lia Palomba, MD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | www.mskcc.org |
Surinder Sahota, PhD | University of Southampton, United Kingdom | www.southampton.ac.uk |
Sheeba Thomas, MD | MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas | www.mdanderson.org |
Steven Treon, MD, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts | www.dana-farber.org |
Brian Van Ness, PhD | University of Minnesota | www.med.umn.edu |
Research Committee
- Guy Sherwood, MD, Chair
- Suzanne Herms
- Robert Kyle, MD
- Judith May
- Tom Hoffmann, MD, volunteer
- Fred Leonard, MD, volunteer
- Earnest Light, PhD, volunteer
- Neal Makens, MD, volunteer
- Tom Myers, volunteer
- Linda Nelson, DMD, MScD
- Colin Perrott, volunteer
- Charles Ritz, PhD, volunteer