Membership
Our faculty bring interdisciplinary expertise in genomics, epidemiology, cancer biology, and translational research:
Logan Spector, PhD
Director
Logan Spector provides strategic leadership for CCGG, guiding the center’s mission to advance genomic and translational research in pediatric cancer. His work emphasizes building collaborative, interdisciplinary research programs, supporting trainee development, and strengthening partnerships across institutional, national, and international networks to accelerate discoveries with clinical impact.
Tianzhong Yang, PhD
Associate Director
Tianzhong Yang, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science. Her research focuses on genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics, with an emphasis on developing methods for gene–environment interaction analysis, high-dimensional mediation analysis, Mendelian Randomization, and integrative analysis of multi-omics data. She applies these skills to multiple childhood cancers.
CCCG members examine different aspects of childhood cancer genomics either as their primary focus or in collaboration with the larger group.
- Saonli Basu
- Darko Bosnakovsi
- Mike Farrar
- Micah Gearhart
- Weihua Guan
- PingHsun Hsieh
- Steph Huang
- Cindy Im
- David Largaespada
- Erin Marcotte
- Jamie Modiano
- Branden Moriarty
- Chad Myers
- Heather Nelson
- Maria Nieves-Colón
- Nathan Pankratz
- Jen Poynter
- Eric Rahrmann
- Joseph Skeate
- Ruping Sun
- Bharat Thyagarajan
- Sean Tracy
- Lucie Turcotte
- Beau Webber
- Sarah Wernimont
- Arslan Zaidi
