INRG Executive Committee
Co-Chairs
 Susan L. Cohn, MD
Professor and Section Chief, Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
 Andrew Pearson, MD
Professor of Paediatric Oncology (Retired), Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton and McElwain Laboratories, ICR, Sutton, UK |
 Gudrun Schleiermacher, MD, PhD
Pediatric Oncologist / Physician-Scientist |
 Julie R. Park, MD
Chair, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN |
Subcommittee Chairs
Statistical Chair
Wendy B. London, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director of Biostatistics and Director, Clinical and Translational Investigation Program, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Director, Survey and Data Management Core, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
wendy.london@childrens.harvard.edu
Metastatic Disease Chair
Katherine K. Matthay, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Genomics Chair
Gudrun Schleiermacher, MD, PhD
Pediatric Oncologist / Physician-Scientist
Department of Pediatric Oncology
Translational Research in Pediatric Oncology (team leader),
Institut Curie, Paris, France
gudrun.schleiermacher@curie.net
Genomics Co-Chair
Matthias Fischer, MD
Professor of Experimental Pediatric Oncology, University Children’s Hospital of Cologne, Germany
Strategy Development Chair
Genomics Co-Chair
Meredith Irwin, MD
Paediatrician-in-Chief, The Hospital for Sick Children
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Paediatrics, University of Toronto
Relapse Data Committee Chair
Strategy Development Co-Chair
Lucas Moreno, MD, PhD
Clinical Director, Paediatric Haematololgy & Oncology Division
Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Cooperative Group Chairs
COG (Children’s Oncology Group, Neuroblastoma Disease Committee)
Ro Bagatell, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
SIOPEN (Society of Paediatric Oncology European Neuroblastoma Network)
Lucas Moreno, MD, PhD
Clinical Director, Paediatric Haematololgy & Oncology Division
Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
GPOH (German Cooperative Neuroblastoma Trials)
Angelika Eggert, MD
Director, Dept. of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology
Charité Berlin, Germany
APHOG (Asian Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Group)
Akira Nakagawara, MD, PhD
CEO, Saga Medical Center KOSEIKAN (founded in 1834)
CEO, SAGA HIMAT Foundation
Saga, Japan
JCCG (Japan Children’s Cancer Group)
Takehiko Kamijo, MD, PhD
Director, Research Institute for Clinical Oncology, Saitama Cancer Center
Professor, Laboratory of Tumor Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University
Saitama, Japan
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Sara Federico, MD
Member, Division of Solid Tumors Department of Oncology St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, TN, USA
Chief Informatics Officer
Samuel L. Volchenboum, MD, PhD, MS
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Data for the Common Good
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
INRG Members
INRG Task Force members who attended the INRG meeting in Whistler in 2005
Susan L. Cohn, Andrew D.J. Pearson, Wendy B. London, Emanuele S.G. d’Amore, Andreas Faldum, Barbara Hero, Tomoko Iehara, David Machin, Veronique Mosseri, Michel Peuchmaur, Hiroyuki Shimada, Peter F. Ambros, Inge M. Ambros, Garrett M. Brodeur, Jerome Couturier, Michelle Haber, Javed Khan, John M. Maris, Akira Nakagawara, Gudrun Schleiermacher, Frank Speleman, Ruediger Spitz, Nadine Van Roy, Katherine K. Matthay, Klaus Beiske, Sue Burchill, Irene Cheung, Francesco Giammarile, Eiso Hiyama, Jean Michon, Robert C. Seeger, Barry Shulkin, Tom Monclair, Hervé Brisse, Giovanni Cecchetto, Keith S.J. Holmes, Michio Kaneko, Jed G. Nuchtern, Dietrich von Schweinitz, Frank Berthold, Victoria Castel, Robert P. Castleberry, Nai-Kong Cheung, Bruno De Bernardi, Helen Irving, Ruth Ladenstein, C. Patrick Reynolds, Jinhua Zhang, Julie R. Park, Roswitha Schumacher-Kuckelkorn, Thorsten Simon, Hidetaka Niizuma, Toby Trahair, Jennifer Forbeck, and John T. Kemshead.