Associate Director for Research Administration and Strategic Planning

Dina Gould Halme, PhD

Dina Gould Halme, PhD, has served as the Cancer Center’s Associate Director for Research Administration and Strategic Planning since 2010. In this role, she is responsible for managing all aspects of the Cancer Center research enterprise, including strategic planning and evaluation, oversight of the research budget, long-range planning and implementation of resource allocation, management of internal pilot funding and multi-investigator grants, and administrative responsibility for the Office of Clinical Research. Additionally, she facilitates transdisciplinary program development, oversees hiring and supervision of the administration team, assists in strategic recruitment of new Cancer Center member faculty, and works closely with leadership colleagues to ensure alignment across UVACCC research, education, and outreach initiatives.

Dr. Halme also works to foster collaboration with outside institutions to develop strategic partnerships to advance UVACCC’s mission. This includes her active role in the American Academy of Cancer Institute/Cancer Center Administrators Forum community, having served on the planning committee for two annual national meetings.

An immunologist by training, Dr. Halme received her PhD in biology in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she remained as a Postdoctoral Associate for Curriculum Development from 2002 to 2004. She later served as Associate Dean for Research and Special Projects and Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. There, she was instrumental in securing major funding for regeneration medicine and stem cell research and in establishment of the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute.