Dr. Butterfield is a tenured academician (UCLA and University of Pittsburgh) and former President of the Society of Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC).  She is an Adjunct Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at UCSF, a member of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cancer Immunotherapy, and core faculty at the Herbert Perkins Cellular Therapy and Transfusion Medicine Fellowship.  She is a member of the AACR Cancer Immunology Working Group Steering Committee, and a member and Chair of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Cellular, Tissues and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee.