Pediatric hematologist-oncologist Saro Armenian, D.O., M.P.H., is the Barron Hilton Chair in Pediatrics, with expertise in pediatric cancer, epidemiology and cancer survivorship.

City of Hope's Richard Ermel Directs and oversees the DCM biomedical and translational research programs.

Betty Ferrell, Ph.D., M.S.N., director, Division of Nursing Research and Education, focuses her clinical expertise and research in pain management, quality of life and palliative care.

Rick Kittles, Ph.D., is professor and founding director of the Division of Health Equities within the Department of Population Sciences at the City of Hope

James V. Lacey, Jr., Ph.D., M.P.H., is a researcher in the division of health analytics within the Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine at Beckman Research Institute.

Susan L. Neuhausen, Ph.D., is The Morris & Horowitz Families Professor in Cancer Etiology & Outcomes Research at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope. She conducts research focused on identifying genes that predispose to disease.

Russell Rockne, Ph.D. is the director of the Division of Mathematical Oncology in the Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope.

John A. Zaia, M.D., is the director of the Center for Gene Therapy at City of Hope and has expertise in stem cell and HIV/AIDS research.