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2008 SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

The Hereditary Disease Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board is composed of distinguished scientists from around the world. The Board meets annually every January in Santa Monica, California, to review grant and fellowship applications in order to assure that each supported project has relevance to Huntington's disease, and is scientifically sound as well as economically justified. Additionally, the Board plans future workshops, and makes policy decisions on matters pertinent to the science that the Foundation supports.

The members of the Scientific Advisory Board who live in the Southern California region also belong to a local Science Advisory Board — a sub-committee of the larger board. In addition to the January meeting, this group meets twice a year to review grant and fellowship applications and current research projects.

Yvette M. Bordelon, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Marie-Francoise Chesselet, M.D., Ph.D.
Charles H. Markham Professor of Neurology
Chair
Department of Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Dennis W. Choi, M.D., Ph.D.
Executive Director
Comprehensive Neurosciences Initiative
Emory University

Beverly L. Davidson, Ph.D.
Roy J. Carver Professor in Internal Medicine
Professor in Neurology, and Physiology & Biophysics
Roy J. and Lucille J. Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Marc Diamond, M.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
Marian DiFiglia, Ph.D.
Professor in Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Steven Finkbeiner, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Investigator
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease
Associate Professor of Neurology and Physiology
University of California, San Francisco
Kenneth H. Fischbeck, M.D.
Chief,
Neurogenetics Branch
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
H. Robert Horvitz, Ph.D.
Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nobel laureate
David E. Housman, Ph.D.
Ludwig Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert E. Hughes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Buck Institute for Age Research
Carl D. Johnson, Ph.D.
Executive Director for Science
Hereditary Disease Foundation
Mary B. Kennedy, Ph.D.
The Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Biology
Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Michael S. Levine, Ph.D.
Chair
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Ph.D. Program
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Associate Director
Mental Retardation Research Center
Associate Director for Education
Brain Research Institute
Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience
and Human Behavior
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
John Mazziotta, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Neurology, Radiological Sciences, and Medical and Molecular Pharmacology
Chair
Department of Neurology
Director
Brain Mapping Center
Associate Director
Neuropsychiatric Institute
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Diane E. Merry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Thomas Jefferson University
Richard I. Morimoto, Ph.D.
Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Director
Rice Institute for Biomedical Research
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Northwestern University
Paul J. Muchowski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
Richard C. Mulligan, Ph.D.
Director
Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative
Laboratory of Molecular Medicine
Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics
Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Diana Rosas, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Joan Sawyer Steffan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
University of California Irvine
Leslie M. Thompson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Department of Biological Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
Leslie P. Weiner, M.D.
Professor
Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Neurology

Richard Angus Grant, Sr. Chair in Neurology
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California

Nancy S. Wexler, Ph.D.
Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology
Columbia University
President
Hereditary Disease Foundation
Charles J. Wilson, Ph.D.
Roland K. and Jane W. Blumberg Professor
Department of Biology
University of Texas at San Antonio
Ai Yamamoto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Columbia University

X. William Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurobehavioral Genetics Research Center
Brain Research Institute
Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Anne B. Young, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief
Neurology Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School