Neuroscience
Steering Committee

The Biomarkers Consortium’s Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity, Metabolic Disorders and Neuroscience Steering Committees are responsible for identifying and moving forward promising pre-competitive biomarkers projects for implementation by the Biomarkers Consortium, as well as overseeing each individual project under its purview. The members of each Steering Committee represent a variety of sectors, including academia, government, industry and not-for-profit/advocacy organizations, and are led by two co-chairs representing two of the following three sectors: academia, government or industry.

Linda Brady, Ph.D., NIH/NIMH (Co-Chair)

Penny Dacks, Ph.D., Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (Co-Chair)

Danielle Graham, Ph.D., Biogen (Co-Chair)

William Potter, M.D., Ph.D., (Co-Chair Emeritus)

Marc Aafjes, M.B.A., Deliberate AI

Alexandre Akoulitchev, Ph.D., Oxford Biodynamics

Anthony Bannon, Ph.D., AbbVie

Daniel Barboriak, M.D., Radiological Society of North America

Wade Berrettini, M.D., Ph.D., UPenn

Kevin Bittman, Ph.D., Sengenics

Mathias Blom, M.D., Ph.D., Rhino Health

Diane Bovenkamp, Ph.D., BrightFocus Foundation

Mark Brody, Ph.D., Evolution Research Group

Jonathon Brzezinski, Ph.D., Clarivate

Xuemei Cai, M.D., Pfizer

Marc Cantillon, M.D., Sunbird Bio

Maria Carrillo, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Association®

Leuan Clay, Ph.D., VivoSense

Diana Davis, Ph.D., Danaher Diagnostics

Theresa Ann Day , M.S., Eli Lilly

Francesca DeSimone, Ph.D., Fujirebio US

John Dwyer, J.D., Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation

Lorna Farrelly, Ph.D., Regeneron

Yuehan Feng, Ph.D., Biognosys AG

Thomas Finn, Ph.D., FDA/CBER

Bernard Fischer, M.D., FDA/CDER

Mariana Fontes, Ph.D., Olink Proteomics

Gopi Ganji, Ph.D., GSK

Tim Hammond, Ph.D., Sanofi

Glenn A. Harris, Ph.D.,  Rainwater Charitable Foundation

Rachael Hawtin, Ph.D., Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Darrell A. Henze, Ph.D., Merck & Co

Robert Iannone, M.D., Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Morten Karsdal, Ph.D., Nordic Bioscience

Katherine Jung, Ph.D., NIH/NIAAA

Hartmuth Kolb, Ph.D., Enigma Biomedical Group

Walter Koroshetz, M.D., NIH/NINDS

Frank Lebeda, Ph.D., US Military

Tara Lincoln, MLIS, The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins

Kristina Malzbender, M.P.H., Gates Ventures

Eliezer Masliah, M.D., NIH/NIA

David Millis, M.D., M.B.A., Ph.D., FDA/CDER

Larry Mimms, Ph.D., Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance

Satoshi Minoshima, M.D., Ph.D., Radiological Society of North America

Laura Mitic, Ph.D., The Bluefield Project to Cure FTD

Mike Montalto, Ph.D., Path AI

Andrea Mortera, Empatica

Laura Nisenbaum, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation

Dimitry Ofengeim, Ph.D., Sanofi

Lovingly Park, Ph.D., Alector

Mary Ann Pelleymounter, Ph.D., NIH/NINDS

Christos Petropoulos, Ph.D., LabCorp

Michael Quirk, Ph.D., Sage Therapeutics

Mert Sahin, Ph.D., Durin Technologies

Steve Sands, Ph.D., Amgen

Swati Sathe, M.D., CHDI Foundation

Daniel Smith, Ph.D., Alkermes

Gad Soffer, M.S., General Metabolics

Joyce Suhy, Ph.D., Clario

Johannes Tauscher, M.D., Takeda

Angela Taylor, Lewy Body Dementia Association

Ina Tesseur, Ph.D., UCB Biopharma SPRL

Chris Turck, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry

Eugeen Vanmechelen, Ph.D., ADx NeuroSciences

Philip Verghese, Ph.D., C2N Diagnostics

Wim Vos, Ph.D., MSc, Radiomics

Christopher Weber, Ph.D., Alzheimer’s Association®

Robby Weimer, Ph.D., Genentech

Joel Wommack , Ph.D., SomaLogic

Henrik Zetterberg, M.D., Ph.D., University of Gothenburg