2007 CBCRP Evaluation Process & Review Committees

In the first phase of the funding process, grant applications were peer reviewed and scored for scientific merit in a “study section” format using a model that follows established practice at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Each committee is composed of scientists and advocates from outside California. The committee Chair leads the review process and is a senior researcher in breast cancer areas associated with the committee’s central topics (e.g., etiology and prevention). Committee Members have broad expertise in topics associated with individual applications. Breast cancer Advocate reviewers are women and men active in breast cancer issues and many of whom are also living with the disease. Advocates bring their personal knowledge and commitment to the review process. Often they have specialized training in grant review, such as the NBCC’s Project LEAD. Each committee also includes a California Advocate Observer, who does not review or vote, but represents the California advocacy community. The observer gains insight into our process and provides feedback to the Program. Ad Hoc members participate by teleconference and bring their specialized expertise to the review of individual applications.

The majority of research funding agencies rate proposals with a single scientific merit score. In contrast, the CBCRP uses a merit scoring system that separates scientific merit into individual components (e.g., approach, innovativeness, impact). This allows our expert reviewers and the Program to better differentiate applications that might otherwise appear identical. For example, we can now pick the most innovative applications, or those that have the highest career development potential. Depending on the award type, we use four or five scientific merit components in the peer review process.

After the completion of all review committees, the CBCRP ranks the application pool by average scientific merit. Applications in the upper two-thirds of average scientific merit are rated by the CBCRP’s advisory council for programmatic responsiveness. The following criteria are used:

This two-tiered evaluation and funding process ensures both scientific excellence and relevance
of the research to CBCRP’s mission and goals.

CRC Concept Paper & CRC-Sociocultural Review Committees

►Chair:
Suzanne M. Miller, Ph.D.
Senior Member
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA

►Members:
Deborah Bowen, Ph.D.
Member and Professor
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA

Janice V. Bowie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD

Patricia A. Carney, Ph.D.
Professor of Family Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR

Lori A. Crane, Ph.D., MPH
Associate Professor
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences
Denver, CO

Michael Diefenbach, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Marilie D. Gammon, Ph.D.
Professor
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Karen Glanz, Ph.D., MPH
Professor & Director, Emory Prevention Research Center
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
Atlanta, GA

Carolyn Gotay, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI

Mel R. Haberman, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research
Washington State University
Spokane, WA

Kathryn M. Kash, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA

Laura A. Linnan, Sc.D.
Associate Professor
UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health
Chapel Hill, NC

Alicia K. Matthews, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Cathy D. Meade, R.N., Ph.D.
Professor
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Margo Michaels, MPH
Executive Director
Education Network Access to Advance Clinical Trials
Silver Spring, MD

Shiraz I. Mishra, M.B.B.S., Ph.D
Associate Professor
University of Maryland, Baltimore - School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

 

Beti Thompson, Ph.D.
Member
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA

JoAnn Tsark, MPH
Research Director
Papa Ola Lokahi
Honolulu, HI

Sally W. Vernon, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Health Promotion & Behav. Sciences
University of Texas - Houston School of Public Health
Houston, TX

Francisco A. Villarruel, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow and Professor
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

►Advocate Members:
Maryellen Delapine
Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation
Gilbertsville, PA

Kim O'Meara
Mercy Women's Center Advisory Board
Cedar Rapids, IA

Jane B. Segelken
Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance
Ithaca, NY

Sara S. Williams
Sister Study
Mebane, NC

Kimberly E. Wright
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Baltimore, MD

►California Advocate Observer Member:
Bambi Schwartz
Spore Advocacy Core
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

►Ad-Hoc Members:
Benjamin O. Anderson, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgical Oncology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Mary K. Anglin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Namni Goel, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Mark Kettler, M.D.
Associate Professor
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR

Wanda Pratt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Charles Wiggins, Ph.D.
Director and Principal Investigator
New Mexico Tumor Registry
Albuquerque, NM

Mayumi A. Willgerodt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Etiology and Prevention Committee

►Chair:
Mary S. Wolff, Ph.D.
Professor of Community Medicine
Mount Sinai Medical School
New York, NY

►Members:
Stephen Barnes, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Birmingham, AL

David A. Boothman
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, TX

Abenaa M. Brewster, M.D., M.H.S.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Andreas I. Constantinou, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus

Joan E. Cunningham, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Laurence M. Demers, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Pathology & Medicine
Pennsylvania State University
Hershey, PA

Marilie D. Gammon, Ph.D.
Professor
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Kirsten Moysich, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY

Peggy L. Porter, M.D.
Head, Breast Cancer Research Program
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA

Pepper J. Schedin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Colorado Cancer Center
Aurora, CO

James D. Shull, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE

Jamboor K. Vishwanatha, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth, TX

Danny R. Welch, Ph.D
Leonard H. Robinson Professor of Pathology
University of Alabama - Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

►Advocate Members:
Anne-Marie Kunzler
National Breast Cancer Coalition
New York, NY

Susan Pelletier
Vermont Breast Cancer Coalition
Stockbridge, VT

Rosemary Rosso, JD
National Breast Cancer Coalition
Washington, DC

Njara Stout, MBA
Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance
Ithaca, NY

►California Advocate Observer Member:
Carolyn Helmke
Bay Area Young Survivors
Palo Alto, CA

►Ad-Hoc Member:
Anthony R. Tagliaferro, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Health Enhancement
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH

Innovative Treatments/Earlier Detection Committee

►Chair:
Kapil Dhingra, M.D.
Vice President, Oncology
Hoffmann-La Roche
Nutley, NJ

►Members:
Rajesh Agarwal, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, CO

Rosalyn Blumenthal, Ph.D.
Senior Medical Writer
FCB Healthcare/ProHealth
New York, NY

Virginia F. Borges, MD, MMSc
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado Health Science Center
Aurora, CO

Esteban Celis, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Jenny Chang, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Timothy M. Clay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Billy W. Day, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director, Proteomics Core Lab
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Silvia C. Formenti, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
NYU Medical Center
New York, NY

Michael A. Jacobs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Radiology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Gregory S. Karczmar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, IL

Andrew Karellas, Ph.D.
Director of Medical Physics
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

A. James Mixson, M.D.
Associate Professor
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Baltimore, MD

Raymond Raylman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

Eva Sevick-Muraca, Ph.D.
Professor and Division Head
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Alison T. Stopeck, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Arizona Cancer Center
Tucson, AZ

Zhen Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes
Baltimore, MD

►Advocate Members:
Ann E. Fonfa, BPS
The Annie Appleseed Project
Delray Beach, FL

Jessica Henderson, Ph.D.
National Breast Cancer Coalition
Western Oregon University
Corvallis, OR

Kathleen Livingston
Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Waterford, MI

Musa Mayer
National Breast Cancer Coalition
New York, NY

►California Advocate Observer Member:
Dasha Drab
Save Ourselves
Gold River, CA

►Ad Hoc Member:
Benjamin O. Anderson, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgical Oncology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Pathogenesis Committee

►Chair:
Karin D. Rodland, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA

►Members:
Geoffrey J. Clark, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Steven Goodison, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Jacksonville, FL

Stephen R. Hann, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice-Chairman
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN

Brittney-Shea Herbert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN

Shawn E. Holt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medical College of Virginia at VCU
Richmond, VA

Cheryl L. Jorcyk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Boise State University
Boise, ID

Thomas J. Kelly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Arkansas Cancer Research Center
Little Rock, AR

Michael S. Kinch, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Biology
Functional Genetics
Gaithersburg, MD

Charlotte Kuperwasser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Tufts University, School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Cathy Lofton-Day, Ph.D.
Vice President Molecular Biology, Diagnostics
Epigenomics, Inc.
Seattle, WA

James B. McCarthy, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455

W. Jack Pledger, Ph.D.
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Susan E. Pories, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Cambridge, MA

Pranela Rameshwar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ

M. Sharon Stack, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice Chair for Research
Univ. of Missouri School of Medicine
Columbia, MO

Andrew Thorburn, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Colorado- Denver, Health Sciences Center
Aurora, CO

Lily Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

►Advocate Members:
Vernal H. Branch
The Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation
Richmond, VA

Christine Carpenter
Iowa Breast Cancer Edu-action
Cedar Falls, IA

Martina Correia
National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer
Savannah, GA

Patricia Haugen
National Breast Cancer Coalition
Sioux Falls, SD

►California Advocate Observer Member:
Linda Sherif
Bay Area Young Survivors
Albany, CA

Tumor Progression Committee

►Chair:
Suzanne A.W. Fuqua, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Breast Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

►Members:
Joan M. Carboni, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Princeton, NJ

Charles V. Clevenger, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

James DiRenzo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH

Gabriela Dontu, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

William C. Hahn, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA

Jeffrey T. Holt, M.D.
Todd Professor of Experimental Pathology
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO

Patricia J. Keely, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

Khandan Keyomarsi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Rachel E. Klevit, D. Phil.
Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D.
Professor and Deputy Chairman
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Indira Poola, Ph.D.
Professor
Howard University, College of Medicine
Washington, DC

Victoria Seewaldt, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC

Jeffrey E. Segall, Ph.D.
Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY

Stewart Sell, M.D.
Research Physician
New York State Health Department, Wadsworth Center
Albany, NY

Carolyn L. Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Saraswati Sukumar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director of Basic Research
Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Kay-Uwe Wagner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE

Robert Wieder, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ

Ming Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

►Advocate Members:
Anna Cluxton, MBA
Young Survival Coalition
Columbus, OH

Maria W. Lyzen, RN, MPH
University of Michigan BC Advocacy/Advisory
Committee
Rochester Hills, MI

Jane Perlmutter
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
Naperville, IL

Pamela J. Vaughn
Common Cares Cancer Foundation
Dallas, TX

Elizabeth Wohl
Young Survival Coalition
East Hampton, NY

►California Advocate Observer Member:
Gayle Nobbs
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
Irvine, CA