Tom Dann is responsible for legal, corporate strategy, fundraising, investor relations, corporate governance, and business development at Cellphire. Tom was formerly Managing Director of the Maryland Venture Fund, the $120M venture program funded by Maryland that invested into private venture funds, as well as scores of start-ups and early stage companies across a wide range of industry sectors. He previously co-founded ECentury Capital Partners, a $90 million early stage venture fund where he served as managing director and general counsel, and he was a Venture Partner and Director of GIV Venture Partners. Tom holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from the American University Law School. He is a member of the Maryland Bar and a member of the Real Estate Subcommittee for Children’s National Hospital Center.

A nationally recognized expert in the treatment and research of lung cancer, Dr. Edelman developed one of the most commonly used regimens for treating advanced lung cancer and has focused on the development of new agents and biomarkers to personalize lung cancer therapy. He has a particular interest in approaches that integrate surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy in the management of lung cancer patients.

Dr. Edelman serves on the Lung Cancer Committee of the Alliance, the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, and the Thoracic Malignancies Steering Committee of the National Cancer Institute’s Scientific Review Group. In addition, he is the Medical Oncology Co-chair for the Lung Cancer Committee of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and is an active member and past chair of the Career Development and Ethics Committees of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC).

Dr. Edelman has published more than 325 scientific articles, abstracts, and book chapters. In addition, he has served on the editorial boards or as a reviewer of numerous academic journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and currently serves as Associate Editor of the journal Lung Cancer.

Dr. Lin is a Professor of Radiation Oncology and a Physician-Scientist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His practice focuses on thoracic malignancies. He leads clinical trials testing advanced radiation technologies or combining novel agents to enhance the current standard of care. His laboratory is also developing approaches that will enhance traditional cancer therapies. They are using drug screen approaches to identify drugs that could enhance both the cytotoxic effects but also immune stimulatory effects of radiation therapy.

Dr. Lin is also interested in approaches to identify drivers of treatment resistance and innovative strategies to counterbalance the resistance mechanisms. He is applying candidate gene knockdown or knockout screens to identify immunomodulators or radiation sensitivity modulators. The focus is on clinical translation, taking potential drug candidates and testing them in preclinical studies to validate the utility of combining radiation sensitizers or immunomodulators with standard of care chemoradiotherapy or radiotherapy alone approaches for the management of lung and esophageal cancer. Promising agents are brought to the clinic as investigator-initiated trials.

Dr. Cristofanilli is a physician-scientist known for contributions in several areas of clinical and translational research, including the research and treatment of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) and inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), the two most aggressive and deadly forms of breast cancer.

Dr. Cristofanilli’s academic focus is on novel biomarkers of endocrine resistance in breast cancer. He conducted the pivotal clinical trials and authored the seminal publications on the use of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) for cancer diagnosis and treatment. He also collaborated and co-authored with Creatv MicroTech on the discovery of cancer associated macrophage like cells (CAMLs) in solid tumor cancers.

Dr. Cristfanilli received his MD from the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy, where he also completed his fellowship. He completed his residency at Cabrini Medical Center in New York and his fellowship at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He has board certification in Medical Oncology by the American Board of Internal Medicine.