TARGET ALS FOUNDATION - Key Persons


Alexander McCampbell

Job Titles:
  • Global Head of Neuroscience & Rare Diseases Research

Alisa Doctoroff

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Jim Joseph Foundation

Amy Easton

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director of Scientific Programs

Andrew Wood

Job Titles:
  • VP, Clinical Neuroimaging Research

Andy Berndt

Job Titles:
  • Vice President and Co - Founder, Google Creative Lab

Biljana Djukic

Job Titles:
  • Translational Medicine and Early Development Lead, Neurology and Rare Diseases

Brad Friedman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Principal Scientist, Department of OMNI Bioinformatics

Brad S. Karp

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  • Chairman, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Burhan Siddiqui

Job Titles:
  • Accounting & Financial Systems Manager

Carole Ho

Job Titles:
  • Chief Medical Officer
  • Head of Development

Chris Henderson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Advisor
  • Chief Scientific Officer, Alltrna

Claire Le Pichon

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator

Clint Ramnarine

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Database Manager

Daniel L. Doctoroff

Job Titles:
  • Founder & Board Chair, Target ALS / Founder & CEO, Sidewalk Labs
Having lost both his father and uncle to ALS, Daniel L. Doctoroff founded Target ALS, a transformative biomedical research nonprofit, in 2013 to accelerate discovery of effective treatments for ALS. In October 2021, Dan himself was diagnosed with ALS. Upon receiving the news, his focus shifted to scaling up the organization. Target ALS has galvanized unprecedented collaborations between academia and the pharma and biotech industry, lowered barriers to access for critical research tools, and become a hub of communication and networking for the worldwide research community, resulting in the launch of 6 clinical trials and several dozens of drug discovery programs within the span of last decade.

Donald Kennedy

Job Titles:
  • Donald Kennedy Chair, School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Genetics

Elizabeth D. Buttermore

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  • Director of Translational in Vitro Models

Ellen Guss

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  • Scientific Programs Coordinator

Eric Schaeffer - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Erika Holzbaur

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  • Professor of Physiology

Eva-maria Albers

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  • Professor and Group Leader, Institute for Developmental Biology and Neurobiology ( IDN )

Fanny Elahi

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  • Asst. Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience Asst. Professor of Pathology, Molecular and Cell - Based Medicine

Frank Walsh - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Founder

Holly Kordasiewicz

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Neurology Research

Holly Soares

Job Titles:
  • Head of Precision Medicine, VP

Ian Reynolds - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Jere Meredith

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director Neuroscience

Jim Kupiec

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  • Chief Clinical Development Officer

John Douglas French

Job Titles:
  • Foundation Endowed Professor Director, Medical Scientist Training Program

John Dunlop - CSO

Job Titles:
  • CSO

Jonathan Glass

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  • Professor of Neurology & Pathology, Director of the Emory ALS Center

Judith Frydman

Job Titles:
  • Donald Kennedy Chair, School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Genetics

Kelly Monk

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director, Vollum Institute

Kenneth Devaney - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operations Officer

Kimberly Scearce-Levie

Job Titles:
  • Chief Development Officer

Laura Dugom

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Scientist

Leonard Petrucelli

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientific Advisor, Target ALS / Professor of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic

Lisa Ellerby

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Buck Institute

Mahendra Rao - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Manish Raisinghani - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Manuela Polydoro

Job Titles:
  • VP, Head of Translational Medicine

Manzoor Bhat

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  • Vice Dean for Research ( Interim ), Professor and Chair

Merit Cudkowicz

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  • Chief, Neurology Department Director, Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology

Michael Ahlijanian

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientific Officer

Mike Poole

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  • Senior Advisor

Moses Chao

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  • Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Nicholas Ashton

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  • Assistant Professor, University of Gothenburg

Orla Hardiman

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Neurology / Head of Academic, Clinical Medicine

Pamela Maher

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor, Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory

Rajiv Ratan

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer, Burke Institute, and Associate Dean

Richard Hargreaves - VP

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Vice President

Richard Olson

Job Titles:
  • Director, Small Molecule Drug Discovery

Rob Scannevin

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientific Officer

Robert Miller

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Target ALS IRC / Vice Dean for Research & Academic Affairs, George Washington University

Sarah I. Sheikh

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Neuroscience / Takeda

Sarah Kucenas

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  • Professor of Biology, Cell Biology, and Neuroscience

Sophia Bardehle

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
  • Senior Principal

Stacie Weninger - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Stephanie Ishoo

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Research Communications and Marketing

Tracy Saxton

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Saxton Biopharma Consulting, LLC

Volkan Granit

Job Titles:
  • Medical Director, Clinical Development

Yuliya Rzad

Job Titles:
  • Chief
  • Grants Officer

Zaven Kaprielian

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientific Officer