Judith Gasson, Director, JCCC

Judith C. Gasson, Ph.D., became director of UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) on Sept. 15, 1995. She is a molecular biologist and is responsible for one of only 40 institutions designated as comprehensive cancer centers by the National Cancer Institute. (More...)

James Economou, Deputy Director, JCCC

James Economou, M.D., Ph.D., received his doctorate in Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is the chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at UCLA and serves as director of the Cancer Translational Therapeutics & Gene Therapy Program Area. (More...)

Harvey Herschman, Director, Basic Research

Harvey Herschman, Ph.D., a widely recognized expert in cellular biology and biochemistry, has been an enthusiastic teacher and researcher at UCLA for more than three decades. His research focuses on gene discovery — investigating how signals from the outside stimulate genes and cells and then observing the cells to see what they do. (More...)

Dennis Slamon, Director, Clinical/Translational Research

In addition to his role as director of Clinical/Translational Research, Dennis J. Slamon, M.D., Ph.D., serves as director of the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research Program at JCCC. He is a professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and executive vice chair for research for UCLA's Department of Medicine. (More...)

Patricia Ganz, Director, Prevention and Control Research

Patricia A. Ganz, M.D., is a medical oncologist who has spent the past 20 years doing systematic research on the health-related quality of life impact of cancer and its treatment. She currently holds an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship, and is a professor in the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health. (More...)

Leonard Rome, Director, Strategic Partnerships and Planning

A cell biologist and biochemist who has served on the UCLA School of Medicine faculty since he joined the Department of Biological Chemistry in 1979, Leonard Rome, Ph.D. became a full professor in 1988 and has been senior associate dean for research in the David Geffen School of Medicine since 1997. (More...)

Robert DuWors, Deputy Director, Administration and Finance

Robert DuWors comes to JCCC from the University of California, San Francisco, Cancer Center and Research Institute, where he served as associate director of administration and finance for five years. DuWors is the only non-academic member of the cancer center's policy-making and management team. (More...)

Jonathan Page, Executive Director, Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

Jonathan Page holds a B.A. in Economics from UCLA and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law. After many years in private business, he joined the UCLA development staff in 1995, serving initially as the Director of Development for the School of Nursing and later as the Director of Development for the School of Dentistry. He assumed his current position in 2000. (More...)

Helene Brown, Associate Director, Community Applications of Research

Helene G. Brown has been in the forefront of the movement to control cancer since 1950. She has been credited with leading the nation's battle against the fraud of cancer quakery from the late '60s through the mid-90s and implementing mass media approaches to promotion of the pap smear in the 1950s and '60s. (More...)

Roshan Bastani, Associate Director, Prevention and Control Research

Roshan Bastani, Ph.D., is a health psychologist whose main research focus over the past two decades has been the study of access to health care among low income, ethnic minority and other underserved groups. She has conducted numerous community-based intervention studies designed to evaluate the most effective and efficient means of reducing cancer disparities. (More...)