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Abramson Cancer Center

The Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) of the University of Pennsylvania is a global leader in basic, translational, clinical, and population science research for the advancement of cancer care. The ACC was founded in 1973 and was one of the first NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, receiving that designation in 1974. The ACC is deeply committed to its mission to improve the lives of adults and children with cancer in the greater Philadelphia area, across the nation, and around the world. The ACC is a matrix cancer center embedded within the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which encompasses the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The mission of the ACC is to embody a “science-driven, patient-focused” comprehensive cancer center. Members of the ACC have leveraged multidisciplinary approaches to address some of the toughest problems in cancer research, developing novel therapeutic agents and other breakthrough discoveries.  

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University of Pennsylvania

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Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil
Director
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
(215) 662-3929

Senior Leaders

Senior Leader Title
A Clementina Mesaros, PhD, MS Associate Director for Shared Resources
Amy S. Clark, MD, MSCE Associate Director for Clinical Research
Carmen E Guerra, MD Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement
Cecilia Scavelli, BA Director of Research Administration
David A Mankoff, MD, PhD Associate Director for Education and Training
David W Dougherty, MD, MBA Deputy Director for Clinical Services
Katherine L Nathanson, MD Deputy Director
Lewis A Chodosh, MD, PhD Associate Director for Basic Research
Peter E Gabriel, MD, MSE Associate Director for Clinical Informatics
Ravi Amaravadi, MD Associate Director for Translational Research
Robert A Schnoll, PhD Associate Director for Population Science
Robert F Wynne, BS Chief Operating Officer
Robert H Vonderheide, MD, DPhil Director
Stephen P Hunger, MD Associate Director for Pediatric Research

Research Programs

Research Program Program Leaders
Breast Cancer Angela DeMichele, MD; Roger Greenberg, MD, PhD
Cancer Control Karen Ganz, PhD, MPH; Steven Joffe, MD, MPH
Cancer Therapeutics Naomi Haas, MD; Kim Reiss, MD
Hematologic Malignancies Nancy Speck, PhD; Edward Stadtmauer, MD
Immunobiology Warren Pear, MD, PhD; E. Wherry, PhD
Pediatric Oncology Stephan Grupp, MD, PhD; Kai Tan, PhD
Radiobiology and Imaging Theresa Busch, PhD; Daniel Pryma, MD
Tobacco and Environmental Carcinogenesis Trevor Penning, PhD; Andrew Strasser, PhD
Tumor Biology Shelley Berger, PhD; Matthew Weitzman, PhD

Shared Resources

Category Resource Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Comparative Pathology Core Enrico Radaelli, DVM, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Facility Jonni Moore, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Genetically Altered Mouse Core Douglas Epstein, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Genomic Analysis Core Tapan Ganguly, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Human Immunology Core Eline Luning-Prak, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Metabolomics Core Daniel Kelly, MD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Small Animal Imaging Core E Delikatny, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research ACC BioRepository Anupma Nayak, MD
Cat 6: Biostatistics Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core Qi Long, PhD
Last Updated
August 28, 2026