Our Research

Research Advisory Board

Thomas M. Jessell, Ph.D.
Chairman
Investigator, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Columbia University

Arthur Horwich, M.D.
Investigator, the Howard Hughes Medical Center,
Sterling Professor of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine

Elizabeth Engle, M.D.
Investigator, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Harvard Children’s Hospital

Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D.
John E. Borne Professor
Dean Emeritus, Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center

Jeffrey D. Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Department of Neurology,
Neuroscience and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University

Lewis P. Rowland, M.D.
Professor of Neurology,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Nancy Bonini, Ph.D.
Investigator, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania

Robert H. Brown, Jr., D.Phil, M.D.
Professor and Chairman of Neurology
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Dr. Alfred Sandrock, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Neurology Research & Development, Biogen Idec

The mission of Project A.L.S.™ is to recruit the world’s best research scientists and clinicians to work together toward an understanding of and the first effective treatments for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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