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Elizabeth Lawlor, MD, PhD (Board Chair)

Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Appointed from nominations submitted by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and the Seattle Children’s Research Institute per RCW 43.348.020 (1)(b)

Elizabeth Lawlor, MD, PhD (Board Chair)

Dr. Elizabeth Lawlor is a physician scientist, researcher, educator, and advocate for children. Her research is focused on understanding the fundamental biology of Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive bone and soft tissue tumor that impacts all ages with peak incidence in adolescents and young adults. Following post-doctoral training at University of California, San Francisco she began her career as an independent investigator at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. From 2010 to 2020, she was a faculty member at University of Michigan, where her lab continued to focus its research on basic and translational studies of pediatric solid tumors. While at Michigan, she also served as director of the Cancer Biology PhD graduate and T32 training programs and as associate director of education and training at the Rogel Cancer Center. In June 2020, Dr. Lawlor and her lab joined Seattle Children’s and the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research. She is co-center director for basic and translational science and the associate director for cancer biology. She is also a professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, adjunct professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and an affiliate investigator in the Clinical Research Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Her lab has been continuously funded by grants from the NIH/NCI, AACR-Stand Up to Cancer, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the V Foundation, as well as numerous smaller funding agencies.