The Research Acceleration and Innovation Network (TRAIN)

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The Research Acceleration and Innovation Network (TRAIN) is a network of more than 160 foundations interested in taking a strategic and entrepreneurial approach - what some refer to as “venture philanthropy” – to funding medical research. TRAIN convenes forward-thinking groups to learn from each other and share their novel solutions with the rest of the medical research system.

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Hadly Clark

Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Hadly Clark is an associate director on the FasterCures team at Milken Institute Health. She is an experienced health care professional focused on the intersection of health and technology and leads oncology-focused initiatives exploring innovative screening technologies and anti-cancer treatments.
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Erin Cieslewski

Associate, FasterCures
Erin Cieslewski is an associate at FasterCures within the Milken Institute, where she serves as a research analyst for core programmatic work, specifically within the community-based infrastructure for the inclusive research initiative.
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Ugonnah Chilmaza

Senior Associate, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Ugonnah Chilmaza is a senior associate on the FasterCures team at the Milken Institute. She focuses on planning and executing events that promote and connect people with the work of FasterCures.
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Rosa Rademakers

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Rosa Rademakers is currently scientific director of the VIB-UA Center for Molecular Neurology and full professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Antwerp. Her research is focused on the molecular genetics analyses of neurodegenerative diseases, with a special interest in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Bruce Miller

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Bruce Miller, MD, holds the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he directs the Memory and Aging Center, a National Institutes of Health-sponsored Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
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Stephen J. Haggarty

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Stephen J. Haggarty, PhD, serves as a faculty member in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is the director of the Chemical Neurobiology Laboratory, as well as the scientific director of neurobiology for the Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics in the Department of Psychiatry.
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Sung Hee Choe

Managing Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Sung Hee Choe is the managing director on the FasterCures team at the Milken Institute. She oversees the programmatic portfolio and is responsible for day-to-day operations.
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Li Gan

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Li Gan, PhD, is director of the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, where she is also 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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