Scientific Advisory Board

X. William Yang, MD, PhD, Vice Chair
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Anne B. Young, MD, PhD, Chair Emerita
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Leslie M. Thompson, PhD, Chair
University of California, Irvine

Diane E. Merry, PhD, Vice Chair
Thomas Jefferson University

Richard I. Morimoto, PhD
Northwestern University

A. Jennifer Morton, PhD, ScD, FRSB
University of Cambridge

Richard C. Mulligan, PhD
Harvard Medical School

Harry T. Orr, PhD
University of Minnesota

Henry L. Paulson, MD, PhD
University of Michigan

Christopher E. Pearson, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
University of Toronto

Lynn A. Raymond, MD, PhD, FRCPC
University of British Columbia

H. Diana Rosas, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Joan S. Steffan, PhD
University of California, Irvine

Sarah J. Tabrizi, FRCP, PhD, FMedSci
University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology

Leslie P. Weiner, MD
University of Southern California

Nancy S. Wexler, PhD
Hereditary Disease Foundation
Columbia University

Ai Yamamoto, PhD
Columbia University

Andrew S. Yoo, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine

Scott Zeitlin, PhD
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Gillian P. Bates, FMedSci, PhD, FRS
University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology

C. Frank Bennett, PhD
Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Yvette Bordelon, MD, PhD
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Beverly L. Davidson, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania

Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD
Gladstone Institutes
University of California, San Francisco

Judith Frydman, PhD
Stanford University

Michelle Gray, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Myriam Heiman, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H. Robert Horvitz, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2002 Nobel laureate

David E. Housman, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jeffery W. Kelly, PhD
The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
The Scripps Research Institute

Blair R. Leavitt, MDCM FRCPC
University of British Columbia

Michael S. Levine, PhD
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Jeffrey D. Long, PhD
University of Iowa

John Mazziotta, MD, PhD
UCLA Health Sciences

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