Barbara Van Hare

Head of Partnerships & RCRF Board Member

Barbara has been with the Rare Cancer Research Foundation since its inception. As Head of Partnerships, she currently leads all of the organization’s patient advocacy and institutional relationships, as well as manages Pattern.org’s tissue collection process. In addition, she is a consultant to the Cancer Cell Line Factory at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, on the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Rare Cancers and on the Advisory Panel for the Sarcoma Coalition. Prior to her work with RCRF, she held various management positions in sales and marketing during her 30 year career at Hallmark Cards. Barbara graduated with a B.A. from Northwestern University.