Founders

William Hawkins, MD

• Neidorff­ Family and Robert C. Packman Professor of Surgery
• Chief, Section of Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic, & Gastrointestinal Surgery
• Washington University School of Medicine

Robert Mach, PhD

• Britton Chance Professor of Radiology
• University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Mach and Dr. Hawkins have collaborated for more than 10 years to extend Dr. Mach’s discoveries about the σ-2 receptor in cancer cells into the development of novel therapeutic modalities for pancreatic adenocarcinoma and a wide range of other tumor types.