When evaluating proposals for research funding and following up on funded project results, the IWMF relies on the assistance of several committees. The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is comprised of top WM researchers from around the world, and its members provide guidance on the direction of the IWMF’s research strategy. Research grant proposals are solicited via the process of an annual Request for Proposals and evaluated by an independent committee composed of selected members of SAC and other experts as needed. The proposals are ranked according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) review criteria and forwarded to the IWMF Board of Trustees. Generally speaking, at this stage a decision to fund a proposal is based on proposal quality and fund availability. Once approved for funding, each project’s Principal Investigator submits periodic Progress Reports to the IWMF Research Committee, which is responsible for reviewing all Progress Reports and approving scheduled payments according to the terms of each project’s contract.
For a full list of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) download the PDF here.
Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC)
| Name | Medical Institution | Website |
| Stephen Ansell, MD, PhD (Co-Chair, IWMF SAC) | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota | www.mayoclinic.org(link is external) |
| Steven Treon, MD, PhD (Co-Chair, IWMF SAC) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts | www.dana-farber.org(link is external) |
| James R. Berenson, MD | Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research, West Hollywood, California | www.imbcr.org(link is external) |
| Christian Buske, MD | University Hospital, Ulm, Germany | uni-ulm.de(link is external) |
| Jorge Castillo, MD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts | www.dana-farber.org(link is external) |
| Morton Coleman, MD | Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York | www.nyp.org(link is external) |
| Meletios Dimopoulos, MD | Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece | www.school.med.uoa.gr(link is external) |
| Stanley Frankel, MD | Columbia University, New York, New York | www.cumc.columbia.edu(link is external) |
| Morie Gertz, MD | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota | www.mayoclinic.org(link is external) |
| Irene Ghobrial, MD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts | www.dana-farber.org(link is external) |
| Zachary Hunter, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts | www.dana-farber.org(link is external) |
| Efstathios Kastritis, MD | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine | en.uoa.gr(link is external) |
| Eva Kimby, MD | Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden | ki.se/en/startpage(link is external) |
| Monique Minnema, MD | UMC Utrecht, Netherlands | www.umcutrecht.nl/nl(link is external) |
| Gwen L. Nichols, MD | The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Rye Brook, New York | www.lls.org(link is external) |
| Roger Owen, MD | St. James’s Institute of Oncology, Leeds, United Kingdom | www.leedsth.nhs.uk(link is external) |
| Lia Palomba, MD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | www.mskcc.org(link is external) |
| Surinder Sahota, PhD | University of Southampton, United Kingdom | www.southampton.ac.uk(link is external) |
| Sheeba Thomas, MD | MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas | www.mdanderson.org(link is external) |
| Brian Van Ness, PhD | University of Minnesota | www.med.umn.edu(link is external) |
Research Committee
- Tom Hoffmann, MD, FACS, ACCP, Chair
- Stephen Ansell, MD, Advisor
- Glenn Cantor
- Suzanne Herms
- Linda Nelson, DMD, MScD
- David Schnell, MD
- Joe Thompson, PhD
- Martin Vanderlaan, PhD, M.B.A.