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Scientific Advisory Board
 Dr. Neil Cashman, Chair
Chief Scientific Officer, Amorfix Life Sciences - See bio under Management
 Dr. Joseph S. Beckman
Dr. Beckman holds the Ava Helen Pauling Chair in the Linus Pauling Institute, is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and serves as the Director, Environmental Health Sciences Center at Oregon State University. He is an active contributor to a number of professional associations and has served as a regular reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and on a number of editorial boards of scientific journals.
 Dr. Don W. Cleveland
Dr. Cleveland received his doctorate from Princeton and was a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine prior to accepting his current position at the Ludwig Institute at University of California, San Diego, where he is currently director of the laboratory of cell biology. He has published extensively on adult motor neuron diseases, such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, the hallmark of which is the selective death of motor neurons.
Dr. Cleveland has received numerous awards including election to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the Sheila Essey Prize from the American Academy of Neurology and the ALS Association, and a NIH MERIT Award from National Institute of General Medicine. He is the only individual to receive two Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator MERIT awards from the National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke. He is an Editor of the Journal of Cell Biology.
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