What is the co-founder of The Alliance for Lupus Research currently serving as?
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Alliance for Lupus Research The Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR) is an American voluntary health organization based in New York City whose mission is to find better treatments and ultimately prevent and cure systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus), a debilitating autoimmune disease, through supporting medical research. It was co-founded by philanthropist Woody Johnson, who is also the organization's chairman. As of 2013 the ALR's cumulative research commitment was $81,000,000.
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Woody Johnson Robert Wood Johnson IV (born April 12, 1947) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and diplomat who is currently serving as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He is a great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I (co-founder of Johnson & Johnson), and the owner of the New York Jets of the National Football League.
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Robert Peter Gale Robert Peter Gale (born October 11, 1945) is an American physician and medical researcher. He is known for research in leukemia and other bone marrow disorders (such as aplastic anemia).
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Leslie Dewan Leslie Dewan (born November 27, 1984) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Transatomic Power. Dr. Dewan is a member of the board of MIT and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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Darlene Garner Darlene Onita Garner is an American minister and LGBT activist, and a co-founder of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays (NCBLG). She was the first African-American elder in the Metropolitan Community Church and she helped create (and now leads) the denomination's biannual Conference for People of African Descent (PAD). In 2008 and 2009, she served as MCC Vice-Moderator. She is a nationally recognized speaker on LGBT religious issues; for instance, she was invited to join several other nationally known speakers to announce the "American Prayer Hour", a gay-affirming alternative to the "National Prayer Breakfast". For her work in the LGBT community, Garner was credited in "The African American Almanac" as "contributing
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Mark McClellan Mark Barr McClellan (born June 26, 1963) is the Director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University. Formerly, he was a senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C. McClellan served as Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration under President George W. Bush from 2002 through 2004, and subsequently as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from 2004 through 2006.
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Griffin P. Rodgers Griffin P. Rodgers is the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, one of the 27 institutes that make up the United States National Institutes of Health. He is also the Chief of the institute's Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch and is known for contributions to research and therapy for sickle cell anemia.
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Robert A. Weiss Robert A. Weiss is an American dermatologist and current president of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.
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Sean F. Scott Sean Forrester Scott (May 20, 1969 – February 9, 2009) was a self-educated American disease activist and researcher, filmmaker, innovator, entrepreneur and until the time of his death, the President of the ALS Therapy Development Institute, the world's largest amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease) research center. Scott himself was diagnosed with ALS in 2008 at the age of 38.
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Ethan Nadelmann Ethan Nadelmann (born March 13, 1957) is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs. Described by "Rolling Stone" as, "The driving force for the legalization of marijuana in America," Ethan Nadelmann is known as a high-profile critic and commentator on U.S. and international drug control policies.
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Trevor Lunn Trevor Lunn (born 29 June 1946) is an Alliance Party politician in Northern Ireland.
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Perry N. Halkitis Perry N. Halkitis, Ph.D., M.S., MPH (born February 24, 1963) is an American of Greek ancestry public health psychologist and applied statistician known for his research on the health of LGBT populations with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS, substance use, and mental health. Perry is Dean and Professor of Biostatistics, Health Education, and Behavioral Science at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Between 1998 and 2017, Perry was faculty at New York University, serving in a variety of capacities, the last of which was Senior Association Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs at the College of Global Public Health and Professor of Global Public Health, Applied Psychology, and Medicine. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) at New York University, a bio-behavioral funded research site funded that also serves as a training site for public health, psychology, medical and student scholars working in the arena of LGBT health disparities informed by a theory of syndemics.
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Joseph DeFilippis Joseph DeFilippis (born 1967) is an American gay-rights and anti-poverty activist, who has served as Executive Director of two non-profit organizations and worked as a teacher, community organizer and public speaker. He is best known as the founder of Queers for Economic Justice.
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George C. Prendergast George C. Prendergast, PhD (born 1961) is an American oncologist and biomedical scientist, currently President and CEO of Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR); Co-leader of the Program in Cancer Cell Biology & Signaling at Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University; and Editor-in-Chief of "Cancer Research", the most highly cited journal in the field.
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Jeffrey A. Cohen Jeffrey Alan Cohen (born October 14, 1954) is an American Neurologist specializing in Multiple Sclerosis and Director of Experimental Neurotherapeutics at the Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis.
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Jon Andrus Jon Andrus, an American physician, epidemiologist and immunization specialist, is Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
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Kathleen Zelman Kathleen Manning Zelman, MPH, RD, LD, is an American nutritionist, dietitian, and writer who currently serves as director of nutrition for WebMD.
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Pedram Salimpour Pedram Salimpour is an Iranian-American physician-scientist, author, professor, entrepreneur and business executive. He is the co-founder of CareNex Health Services, Champion Health Enterprises, and Plymouth Health, the latter of which previously owned Alvarado Hospital in San Diego. He has served on numerous boards and is the youngest president in the history of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, a title he has held since 2014. Salimpour is also the first two-time recipient of the American College of Physicians' Research Award. As a keynote speaker he delivered the commencement address to the University of California, Riverside's 2008 graduating class, and gave the keynote address at the 2012 annual colloquium for the Whitehead Institute at MIT in 2012.
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Jamie Merisotis Jamie Merisotis is president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States whose mission is to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees, certificates and other high-quality credentials to 60 percent by 2025. Merisotis leads the Foundation's $1.3 billion endowment. He is the author of "America Needs Talent," published in September 2015 by RosettaBooks and named a Top 10 business book of 2016 by Booklist.
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Lu Chen (scientist) Lu Chen () is a Chinese-born American neuroscientist, who is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and is a member of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute. She was previously an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Kevin Slawin Kevin M. Slawin (born 1961) is an American physician and the founder of Bellicum Pharmaceuticals and the Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group. He is also the Director of Urology at Memorial Hermann Hospital. Slawin specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of urologic cancers and robotic surgery. He is also the co-inventor on several patents related to the advancement of prostate cancer diagnosis, staging and treatment and to the cellular immunotherapy of cancer.
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Alan Ebringer Alan Ebringer B.Sc, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FRCPath (born 12 February 1936) is an Australian immunologist, professor at King’s College in the University of London. He is also an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist in the Middlesex Hospital, now part of the UCH School of Medicine. He is known for his research in the field of autoimmune disease.