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.

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.

Bruce Miller, MD, holds the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he directs the Memory and Aging Center, a National Institutes of Health-sponsored Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

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, co-director of the Precision Therapeutics Unit, as well as the scientific director of neurobiology for the Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics in the Department of Psychiatry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.