Forward Fund Donors

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2021 Forward Fund Donors


The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer would like to thank all of the individuals, corporations and foundations who have generously donated to the Forward Fund. Your generous donations* are paving the way for the future leaders in the cancer immunotherapy field. Thank you for your support!


7 Hills Pharma, LLC

Daniel Abate-Daga, PhD

Stewart E. Abbot, PhD

Amy Abel

Chantal A. Accolatse-Mati, PharmD

ACT for NIH Foundation

Manuel M. Adames, MD

Sherry Adkins, RN, MSN, CNS, ANP-C

Akoya Biosciences

Ivan Aksentijevich, MD

Raef R. Albugami, PhD

Alkermes, Inc.

Allogene Therapeutics, Inc.

Zoya Alteber, PhD

Amazon Smile

Amgen, Inc.

Vasily Andrianov, MD

Anonymous Foundation

Stephen M. Ansell, MD, PhD

Leonard Joseph Appleman, MD, PhD

Robert Arathoon, PhD

Charlotte E. Ariyan, MD, PhD

Taruna Arora, PhD

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP

Attia Family Charitable Fund

Margaret L. Axelrod, BS

Joaquina C. Baranda, MD

Pedro C. Barata, MD, MSc

Stuart D. Barnscher, BSc

Richard J. Barth, Jr.

Arnold M. Baskies, MD

Michael Bates, MD

  1. Henri Bayle, PhD

Arie S. Belldegrun, MD, FACS / Belldegrun Family

         Foundation

Andrey Belous, MD, PhD

Tammy L. Benter, MBA

Jesus G. Berdeja, MD

William A. Biermann, MD, MBA, FACP

Laurence Blumberg, MD

Susie and Jason Bock

David Bonderman

Mark L. Bonyhadi, PhD

Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS

Michael Boyiadzis, MD, MHSc

Steve Bradley, BSChE, MBA

Jason Brayer, MD, PhD

Renier J. Brentjens, MD, PhD

Michael J. Briskin, PhD

Bristol Myers Squibb

Mary M. Brodey, PhD

Beatrice A. Brunkhorst, PhD

Lynne Bui, MD

Craig A. Byersdorfer, MD, PhD

Lisa Butterfield, PhD

Neil Canavan, MS

Handi Cao, PhD

Alessandra Cesano, MD, PhD

Raghav Chandra, MD

Maxime Chapon, PhD

Gurkamal S. Chatta, MD

Cristian Chen, PhD

Marta Chesi, PhD

Lynda Chin, MD

Dick & Libby Christian

Clinigen, Inc.

Robert Coffin, PhD

Janie Cohen

Debbie Consiglio

Timothy L. Coomer, PhD

Betty and Bob Cooper

Laurence J.N. Cooper, MD, PhD

Dale A. Cumming, PhD

Michael A. Curran, PhD

Brendan D. Curti, MD

Margaret Dalesandro, PhD

DAS Foundation

Adil Daud, MD

Jan Davidson-Moncada, MD, PhD

Marianne Davies, DNP, AOCNP

Marco L. Davila, MD, PhD

Sophia C. Davis

Mary Dean, JD, CAE

Sandra Demaria, MD

Shilpa Demes, PhD

Patrick Dillon, MD

Tanya B. Dorff, MD

  1. Andrew Dorr, MD

Kathleen D. Dronkowski, FNP

Thomas Dubensky, PhD

Joseph Elassal, MD

Peter Ellmark, PhD

Leisha Emens, MD, PhD

Cathy Eng, MD

Ugonna I. Ezeanya

Faisal Fa’ak, MBBS

Bill Farley, BS

Matthias Fehr, PhD

Jody L. Felski

Walter G. Ferlin, PhD

Antonio Ferreira, PhD

Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD

Olivera J. Finn, PhD

Michael Fleming

Vaia Florou, MD

Fluidigm Corporation

Joseph Flynn, MD, MPH

Bernard A. Fox, PhD

Bernie A. Fox & Loretta E. Fox

Matthew M. Frank

Gordon J. Freeman, PhD

Jonathan W. Friedberg, MD, MMSc

Mark W. Frohlich, MD

Paul Frohna, MD, PhD, PharmD

Linda J. Fukas

Roel Funke, PhD

Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD

Claudia Galassi, PhD

David R. Gandara, MD

Usman Garba Kurmi

Sharron E. Gargosky, PhD

Rebecca A. Garner, FNP

Edward B. Garon, MD

Sandrine Gaupp Scrim, MBA

Genentech, Inc.

Michael K. Gibson, MD, PhD, FACP

Thierry D. Giffon, PhD

Sarah B. Gitto, PhD

William Y. Go, MD, PhD

Stephanie L. Goff, MD

Kenneth J. Gollob, PhD

Jesus Gomez-Navarro, MD

Jack B. Goon, BS

Rakesh Goyal, MD, MRCP

Adriana Grado

Diana K. Graves, BS

Daina M. Graybosch, PhD

Nancy Gregory, RN, BSN

Michael D. Groaning

Thierry Guillaudeux, PhD

James L. Gulley, MD, PhD, FACP

Nir Hacohen, PhD

Tim J. Haggerty, PhD

Maghfirullah Hakimi

Stephen T. Haley, PhD

Evan Hall, MD, M Phil

Sigrun Hallmeyer, MD

Ann Hanna, PhD

John P. Hanson, Jr, MD

Tim Harris, Jr., PhD, DSc

Guinevere Hart

Robert E. Hawkins, MD, PhD

Caio T. Heleno, MD

Lincoln Hernandez, MD

Diane Herschock MD, PhD

Emily Higgs, PhD

Samit Hirawat, MD

Eamonn P. Hobbs

Ben & Amy Honeycutt

Jennifer Holter Chakrabarty, MD

Ivan D. Horak, MD

Bing Hou, PhD

Marc Hurlbert, PhD

Clara Hwang, MD

Patrick and Katie Hwu and family

Patrick Hwu, MD

Peggy Hwu

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.

Ivey Mechanical Company – Georgia Division

Noriko Iwamoto, PhD

Donna Jackson

William Earl Janssen, PhD

Douglas L. Jicha, MD

Liz Johnson

Ximena Jordan Bruno, MD

Susie Jun, MD, PhD

Maria N. Jure-Kunkel, PhD

Lucy Kappel, PhD

Vidhya Karivedu, MD

Mohan Karkada, PhD

Pashtoon M. Kasi, MD, MS

Howard L. Kaufman, MD, FACS

Varinder Kaur, MD, FACP

Ryan F. Kendle, MD

Shameer Khader, PhD

Maya Khalil, MD

Shaheen Khan, PhD

Wasim Khan, MD, MPH

Sanjay D. Khare, PhD

Joyce Kinsey, MScN, RN

Ebenezer Kio, MD

Amanda Kirane, MD

Kedar Kirtane, MD

Kite, A Gilead Company

Ken Kobayashi, MD

Murat Koc, MD

Alan J. Korman, PhD

Michael J. Korrer, PhD

Lisa A. Kottschade, APRN, MSN, CNP

Krassimir D. Koynov, MD

Linda M. Kozick, MS, MBA

Ada M. Kruisbeek, PhD

Alok Kumar, PhD

Scott H. Kurtzman, MD, FACS

William A. LaFramboise, PhD

Bao Q. Lam, MD, PhD

Mark Landers

Cara Lang

TJ and Rachel Langer

Solomon Langermann, PhD

Wiem Lassoued, PhD

Mindon G. Laue

Sandeep Laumas, MD

Alexander Lazar, MD, PhD

Daniel W. Lee, MD

Meeyoung Lee, MSN, ANP-BC

Rom Leidner, MD

Dzelokaly Lekounda, MD

Lemelbaum Family: Nehemia, Haya and Yaron

Thomas Leung

Ronald Levy, MD

Huiyi Li, MS

Robert Li, PhD

Tianhong Li, MD, PhD

Rosy Liao

Mark R. Litzow, MD

Jing Akira Liu, MD

Mingyue Liu, PhD

Stephen V. Liu, MD

Christopher Logothetis, MD

Nathalie A. Lokker, PhD, MSc

Michael T. Lotze, MD, FACS

Michael T. Lotze, MD, FACS and Joan Harvey

Victoria A. Love, PhD

Ginger D. Lowrie, PharmD

Jason J. Luke, MD, FACP

Lytix BioPharma AS

Crystal Mackall, MD

Ajay V. Maker, MD, FACS

Kevin Makori, MD, MMED

Hiroko Masamune, PhD

Kiyomi Mashima, MD, PhD

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals

Upendra Marathi, PhD, MBA

Ariel E. Marciscano, MD

Julie Martin, MSc, MBA

Sascha Marx, MD, PhD

Mario Mautino, PhD

Louis Matis, MD

Ilya Mazo, PhD

Giovanni Mazzocco, MS

Philip L. McCarthy, MD

Lori Mcdermott, RN, MSc

Westley McGeoghegan

Trevor D. McKee, PhD

Douglas McNeel, MD, PhD

Raj Mehta, PhD

Jan J. Melenhorst, PhD

Taha Merghoub, PhD

Geoffrey Metcalf, MBA, PMP

Kim Middleton, PhD

Ashley Middleton-Davis, PhD

Frances Middleton-Davis

Samuel L. Million-Weaver, PhD

Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer

Daisuke Minakata, MD

Laura Minyard

Mani Mohindru, PhD

John C. Morris, MD

Christine Moussion, PhD

Tarsem L. Moudgil, MS

Sunny Muehleman-Blashe

James Mulé, PhD

William J. Murphy, PhD

Siva S. Murthy, PhD

Satoshi Muto, MD

Michael Mysz, DABR

Romina Nabiee, PhD

Jon and Lee Anne Nance

Sandra Nance

NanoString Technologies

Natera Inc.

Nektar Therapeutics

Bradley Nelson, PhD

Edward Nelson, MD

Network for Good

Rogerio I. Neves, MD, PhD, FACS, FSSO

Amy Nguyen, PharmD

Michael O'Dwyer, MD

Mihail Obrocea, MD

Raphael G. Ognar, MS, MBA

Christiane A. Opitz, MS, MD

Russell Pachynski, MD

John M. Pagel, MD, PhD

Soo Park, MD

Andrew Pecora, MD

Nathan D. Pennock, PhD

John P. Perentesis, MD

Cole Peters

Sytse J. Piersma, PhD

Paula R. Pohlmann, MD, PhD

John D. Powderly, II, MD, CPI

Monali Praharaj, MS

Prats Family Charitable Fund

Nuno Prego Ramos, PhD

Amanda Przespolewski, DO

Amanda Psyrri, MD

Nahum Puebla, PhD, DVM

Erika G. Puente, MD

Raj K. Puri, MD, PhD

Igor Puzanov, MD, MSCI, FACP

William Quinn, MBA

Laszlo Radvanyi, PhD

Hind Rafei, MD

Shahram Rahimian, MD

Jeffrey Raizer, MD

Dhivya Ramakrishnan

Bernardo Leon Rapoport, MD

Alejandro Recio-Boiles, MD, FACP

Pankti Reid, MD, MPH

Reinfeld Family, The

Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD

Antoni Ribas and Clara Armengol

Sharon K. Rise

Robins Nest Family Foundation

Ildefonso I. Rodriguez Rivera, MD

Christian Rolfo, MD, PhD, MBA,Dr.h.c.

Annah S. Rolig, PhD

Pedro J. Romero, MD

Stephen Ronan Foley

Oliver Rosen, MD

Mariana Rostamian, PhD

Benoit Rousseau, MD, PhD

Joshua T. Rubin

Jennifer Ruddock

Amanda N. Ruggieri, MS

Heeju Ryu, PhD

Adrian G. Sacher, MD

Arthur T. Sands, MD, PhD

Sergio L. Santillana, MD, MSc, MBA

Bianca D. Santomasso, MD, PhD

Biren Saraiya, MD

Nicole Scharping, PhD

Andrew Scheffler, NP, BS

Nathalie Scholler, MD, PhD

Alicia Schuessler, CAE

Brock L. Schweitzer, PhD

Matthew M. Seavey, PhD

Rostyslav Semikov, MD, MS

Jonathan S. Serody, MD

Kimberly Shafer-Weaver, PhD

Arlene H. Sharpe, MD, PhD

Stacie Shepherd, MD, PhD

Takashi Shimada, PhD

  1. Alejandro Sica, MD

Barbara Sims

Kouabla Siransy, MD

SITC "Family" Staff, The

Jonathan Sloss

Franz Smith

Kimberly S. Smythe, BS

Susan Snodgrass, MD, Bpharm

Adam E. Snook, PhD

Paul M. Sondel, MD, PhD

Wenru Song, MD, PhD

Jeffrey A. Sosman, MD

Patricia Soulard

Aaron C. Spalding, MD, PhD

Dan Spiegelman

Dirk Spitzer, PhD

Alisha Stein, RN-BC, MSN, OCN

Walter J. Storkus, PhD

Maracie Stout

Allison Stribling

Zhen Su, MD, MBA

Xiaopeng Sun

Youping Sun, Ph.D

Randy F. Sweis, MD

Mario Sznol, MD

Chris H. Takimoto, MD, PhD

Seng-Lai Tan, PhD

Nizar M. Tannir, MD, FACP

Brandie C. Taylor, MS

Stephen R. Thomas, PharmD

Three Oaks Engineering Team

Jill Timbers

John M. Timmerman, MD

Suzanne Topalian, MD and Drew Pardoll, MD, PhD

Tina Tran

Elizabeth Travis, PhD, FASTRO

Jonathan Treisman, MD

Thach-Giao Truong, MD

Cameron J. Turtle, MBBS, PhD

Curtis Tyree, PhD

Koen van Besien, MD, PhD

Luca E. Vannucci, MD, PhD

Gordon Vansant, PhD

Stacey N. Van Pelt

Steve Varnedoe

Praveen Vikas, MD

Viviana Volta, PhD

Fabio Volterra, MD

Jill A. Wahleithner, PhD

Thomas A. Waldmann, MD

Mark Wallet, PhD

William Vincent Walsh, MD

John Wang, PhD

Sarah Warren, PhD

Andrew D. Weinberg, PhD

Daniel Weinstein

Michael Werner

Richard L. White Jr., MD, FACS

Jason R. Williams, MD

Taylor L. Wilson, BS

Sophie Wimberley, PharmD

Jennifer Wing, MSc

Katherine Winter, BS, BSN

Tara Withington, CAE

Burghardt Wittig, MD

Seth Wolchok

Alexandra Wolfarth, PhD

Anna Work

Kate Worthington, PhD

David Wright, PhD, RAC

Stephen H. Wrzesinski, MD, PhD

Wei Yan, PhD

James C. Yang, MD

Hashem Younes, MD

Jianda Yuan, MD, PhD

Zheng Zhu, MD, PhD

Ananya Zutshi, MS, MBA

Burt Zweigenhaft, BS

2021 Friends of the Society

Stewart E. Abbot, PhD

Taruna Arora, PhD

Michael J. Briskin, PhD

Lisa Butterfield, PhD

Robert Coffin, PhD

Marianne Davies, DNP, AOCNP

Sophia C. Davis

Thomas Dubensky, PhD

Peter Ellmark, PhD

Bill Farley, BS

Matthias Fehr, PhD

Mark W. Frohlich, MD

Paul Frohna, MD, PhD, PharmD

Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD

William Y. Go, MD, PhD

Stephen T. Haley, PhD

Ivan D. Horak, MD

Howard L. Kaufman, MD, FACS

Ken Kobayashi, MD

Linda M. Kozick, MS, MBA

Ada M. Kruisbeek, PhD

Mark Landers

Solomon Langermann, PhD

Rom Leidner, MD

Leonelle Daisy Lekounda Dzelokaly, MD

Upendra Marathi, PhD, MBA

Julie Martin, MSc, MBA

Kim Middleton, PhD

Ashley Middleton-Davis, PhD

Frances Middleton-Davis

Mani Mohindru, PhD

Edward Nelson, MD

Igor Puzanov, MD, MSCI, FACP

Laszlo Radvanyi, PhD

Pedro J. Romero, MD

Oliver Rosen, MD

Brock L. Schweitzer, PhD

R. Alejandro Sica, MD

Zhen Su, MD, MBA

Seng-Lai Tan, PhD

Jason R. Williams, MD

2021 CheckPoint Groupies

Zoya Alteber, PhD

Michael J. Briskin, PhD

Lisa Butterfield, PhD

Neil Canavan, MS

Michael A. Curran, PhD

Sandra Demaria, MD

Matthew M. Frank

Mark W. Frohlich, MD

Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD

Usman Garba Kurmi

Rakesh Goyal, MD, MRCP

Maghfirullah Hakimi

Vidhya Karivedu, MD

Mohan Karkada, PhD

Leonelle Daisy Lekounda Dzelokaly, MD

Mark Landers

Michael T. Lotze, MD, FACS

Upendra Marathi, PhD, MBA

Louis Matis, MD

Lori Mcdermott, RN, MSc

Mihail Obrocea, MD

John D. Powderly, II, MD, CPI

Igor Puzanov, MD, MSCI, FACP

Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD

Nathalie Scholler, MD, PhD

Dirk Spitzer. PhD

Zhen Su, MD, MBA

Jill A. Wahleithner, PhD

Sarah Warren, PhD

Jason R. Williams, MD

David Wright, PhD, RAC

2021 Memorial Donations

In Memory of Michele Cesano

Alessandra Cesano, MD, PhD

In Memory of Martin "Mac" A. Cheever, MD

The SITC Staff Family

Seth and Olja Finn

Tara Withington, CAE

In Memory of Robert Gibson

Dick & Libby Christian

Betty and Bob Cooper

Ben & Amy Honeycutt

Ivey Mechanical Company – Georgia Division

Donna Jackson

Jon and Lee Anne Nance

Sandra Nance

Three Oaks Engineering Team

Jill Timbers

Steve Varnedoe

In Memory of Todd John Heitke

Jody L. Felski

In Memory of Thomas A. Waldmann, MD

The SITC Staff Family

2021 "In Honor of" Donations

In Honor of James P. Allison, PhD

ACT for NIH Foundation

Leonard Joseph Appleman, MD, PhD

Robert Arathoon, PhD

Michael J. Briskin, PhD

Cristian Chen, PhD

Lynda Chin, MD

D A S Foundation

Sandra Demaria, MD

Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD

Sandeep Laumas, MD

Christopher Logothetis, MD

Lytix BioPharma AS

Louis Matis, MD

Christiane A. Opitz, MS, MD

Dhivya Ramakrishnan

Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD

Robins Nest Family Foundation

Brock L. Schweitzer, PhD

Matthew M. Seavey, PhD

Paul M. Sondel, MD, PhD

Nizar M. Tannir, MD, FACP

Jason R. Williams, MD

In Honor of Liam Campion

Mark Wallet, PhD

In Honor of Dr. Mike Lotze

Seth and Olja Finn

In Honor of Hillary Quinn

Mark Wallet, PhD

2021 SITC Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD, Scholars Award Donors

Daniel Abate-Daga, PhD

Allogene Therapeutics, Inc.

American Endowment Foundation

Leonard Joseph Appleman, MD, PhD

Attia Family Charitable Fund

Richard J. Barth, Jr., MD

Arnold M. Baskies, MD

Arie S. Belldegrun, MD, FACS / Belldegrun Family Foundation

David Bonderman

Craig A. Byersdorfer, MD, PhD

Cristian Chen, PhD

Clinigen, Inc.

Laurence J.N. Cooper, MD, PhD

Bernie A. Fox and Loretta E. Fox

Roel Funke, PhD

Stephanie L. Goff, MD

John P. Hanson, Jr, MD

Patrick and Katie Hwu and family

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.

Douglas L. Jicha, MD

Kite, A Gilead Company

Ada M. Kruisbeek, PhD

Scott H. Kurtzman, MD, FACS

TJ and Rachel Langer

Mindon G. Laue

Sandeep Laumas, MD

The Lemelbaum Family: Nehemia, Haya and Yaron

Michael T. Lotze, MD, FACS and
Joan Harvey

Ajay V. Maker, MD, FACS

Louis Matis, MD

Roslyn Milstein Meyer and
Jerome Meyer

James Mulé, PhD

Michael O'Dwyer, MD

John D. Powderly, II, MD, CPI

Prats Family Charitable Fund

Laszlo Radvanyi, PhD

Dhivya Ramakrishnan

Sharon K. Rise

Pamela and Joshua Rubin

Antoni Ribas and Clara Armengol

Arthur T. Sands, MD, PhD

Franz Smith

Paul M. Sondel, MD, PhD

Mario Sznol, MD

Suzanne Topalian, MD and Drew Pardoll, MD, PhD

Richard L. White Jr., MD, FACS

Jason R. Williams, MD

James C. Yang, MD