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The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

NCI designated The Ohio State University as a comprehensive cancer center in 1976. The adult patient care component of the OSUCCC is the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, which opened in 1990 and was replaced in 2014 by a much larger cancer hospital of the same name. Clinical partners of the OSUCCC – James include The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, also on the Ohio State campus, and Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. 

The OSUCCC – James’s vision is to create a cancer-free world, one person and one discovery at a time. 

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The Ohio State University

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W. E. Rathmell, MD., PhD.
CEO
460 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
614-293-8890

Senior Leaders

Senior Leader Title
Amanda Toland, PhD Associate Director, Education and Training
Chyke Doubeni, MD, MPH Associate Director, Cancer Careers
Electra Paskett, PhD Deputy Director, Population Sciences and
Community Outreach
Matthew Ringel, MD Deputy Director, Basic Research
Nancy Single, PhD Acting Associate Director, Administration
Sharyn D. Baker, PharmD, PhD Associate Director, Shared Resources
W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD CEO
William Carson III, MD Associate Director, Clinical Research
Zihai Li, MD Deputy Director, Translational Research

Research Programs

Research Program Program Leaders
Cancer Biology Matthew Ringel, MD; Gina Sizemore, PhD; Dawn Chanlder, PhD
Cancer Control Jesse Plascak, PhD; Theodore Wagener, PhD; Diane Von Ah, PhD
Leukemia and Hematologic Malignancies Woyach Jennifer, MD; Rosa Lapalombella, PhD; Alice Mims, MD
Molecular Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Steven Clinton, MD, PhD; Richard Fishel, PhD; Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, PhD
Translational Therapeutics David Carbone, MD, PhD; Blake Peterson, PhD; Elaine Mardis, PhD

Shared Resources

Category Resource Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Clinical-Translational Science Wancai Yang, MD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Comparative Pathology and Digital Imaging Kara Corps, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Drug Discovery Chad Bennett, PhD; Blake Peterson, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Flow Cytometry Bei Liu, PhD; Kevin Weller, BS
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Genomics Amanda Toland, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Preclinical Therapeutics Mouse Modeling Reena Shakya, PhD
Cat 3: Epidemiology, Cancer Control Recruitment, Invtervention, and Survey Tasleem Padamsee, PhD; Heather Aker, MPH
Cat 4: Clinical Research Biospecimen Services Nancy Single, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Hematology Tissue Bank Lapo Alinari, MD, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Pharmacoanalytical Mitch Phelps, PhD; Steven Clinton, MD, PhD
Cat 6: Biostatistics Biostatistics Soledad Fernandez, PhD
Cat 7: Informatics Biomedical Informatics Dongun Chung, PhD
Last Updated
June 29, 2026