Information about the PRECISION consortium
Steering committee for 2019
The project is coordinated by the Principal Investigator Jelle Wesseling. He is chair of the steering group, consisting of the leaders of the workpackages (WPs), a patient advocate and the project manager.
Prof. Dr. Jelle Wesseling
Senior Group Leader, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Professor of Breast Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Alastair M. Thompson
Professor and Chief, Section of Breast Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Co-Director, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Olga Keith Wiess Chair of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Serena Nik-Zainal
CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist
Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics
MRC Cancer Unit
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Prof. Dr. Andrew Futreal
Chair/Professor
Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair
Department of Genomic Medicine
ad Interim Chair – Systems Biology
Co-Director of the Moon Shots Program
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Honorary Faculty, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Prof. Dr. Shelley Hwang
Mary and Deryl Hart Professor of Surgery
Chief of Breast Surgery, Duke Cancer Institute
Duke University School of Medicine
North Carolina, USA
Prof. Dr. Elinor Sawyer
Clinical Oncologist
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital
King’s College London
London, UK
Prof. Dr. Jos Jonkers
Group Leader and Division Head of Division Molecular Pathology
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Esther Lips
Associate staff scientist Molecular Pathology
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Daniel Rea
Professor of Medical Oncology
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Ellen Verschuur, LLM
Patient Advocate
Borstkanker Vereniging Nederland, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Donna Pinto
Patient Advocate
DCIS411
USA
Dr. Proteeti Bhattacharjee
Scientific Project Manager
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
WP leads
WP1 – Prof. Dr. Alastair M. Thompson
Professor and Chief, Section of Breast Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Co-Director, Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Olga Keith Wiess Chair of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
WP2 – Dr. Serena Nik-Zainal
CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist
Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics
MRC Cancer Unit
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
WP3 – Prof. Dr. Andrew Futreal
Chair/Professor
Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair
Department of Genomic Medicine
ad Interim Chair – Systems Biology
Co-Director of the Moon Shots Program
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Honorary Faculty, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
WP4 – Prof. Dr. Shelley Hwang
Mary and Deryl Hart Professor of Surgery
Chief of Breast Surgery, Duke Cancer Institute
Duke University School of Medicine
North Carolina, USA
WP5 – Prof. Dr. Jos Jonkers
Group Leader and Division Head of Division Molecular Pathology
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
WP6 – Dr. Esther Lips
Associate staff scientist Molecular Pathology
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
WP7 – Prof. Dr. Daniel Rea
Professor of Medical Oncology
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Deborah Collyar
Patient Advocates in Research, USA
Marja van Oirsouw
Borstkanker Vereniging Nederland, The Netherlands
Donna Pinto
Blog: https://dcis411.com, USA
Hilary Stobart
Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice, UK
Ellen Verschuur
Borstkanker Vereniging Nederland, The Netherlands