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Li Gan

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Li Gan, PhD, is the director of the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Burton P. and Judith B. Resnick Distinguished Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
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Diane Re

ALS Breakthrough Research Fund Scientific Advisory Board Member
Diane Re is an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the Columbia University School of Public Health. Re’s research team focuses on unraveling the environmental triggers and gene-environment interactions that lead to adult-onset neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS and Parkinson’s disease.
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Ayodola Anise

Senior Director, Operations, Milken Institute Health
Ayodola Anise is the senior director of operations for MI Health, supporting FasterCures, Public Health, Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She brings over two decades of experience in advising on and implementing strategy, leading operations, developing staff, and collaborating for organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and equity.
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Shane Liddelow

ALS Breakthrough Research Fund Scientific Advisory Board Member
Shane Liddelow is an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Liddelow’s basic research focuses on the role of non-neuronal cells in neuroinflammation that leads to neurodegeneration in diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and ALS.
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Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne

ALS Breakthrough Research Fund Scientific Advisory Board Member
Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne is an associate professor of neurology at the Massachusetts General Institute for Neurodegeneration. Lagier-Tourenne’s lab focuses on basic science and uses a combination of genomic approaches across multiple model systems (animal models, neurons from patients, and post-mortem tissue) to identify mechanisms underlying ALS and frontotemporal dementia.
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Steve Finkbeiner

ALS Breakthrough Research Fund Scientific Advisory Board Member
Steve Finkbeiner is director of the Center for Systems and Therapeutics and the Taube/Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at Gladstone Institutes. Finkbeiner’s research is broadly focused across many neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases.
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Lucie Bruijn

ALS Breakthrough Research Fund Scientific Advisory Board Member
Lucie Bruijn serves as the therapeutic area biomarker lead for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at Novartis UK.
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Athena Rae Roesler

Director, Public Health, Milken Institute Health
Athena Rae Roesler is a director on the Public Health team at Milken Institute Health, where she leads a portfolio of work focused on prevention and chronic disease.
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Sarah Wells Kocsis

Senior Director, Public Health
Sarah Wells Kocsis is a senior director at the Milken Institute. She oversees the Public Health programmatic pillar which focuses on mental health, prevention, chronic disease, infrastructure, and health equity, and also is responsible for day-to-day operations.
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Sabrina Spitaletta

Senior Director, Public Health, Employer Action Exchange
Sabrina Spitaletta has been at the Milken Institute since 2017. She leads the work focused on the role of employers advancing public health and develops strategic collaborations across sectors and industries to advance whole-person health and performance at work and in the community.
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