Research Fund Advisory Committee

Michael Friedlander PhD

  • Vice President for Health Sciences and Technology, Virginia Tech
  • Executive Director, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion
  • Senior Dean for Research, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
  • Professor, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

Craig Garner PhD

  • Biochemistry, Purdue University 1984
  • Professor of Neurobiology and Synaptopathy German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Founding Director, SPARK Translational Research Program, Charite Medical University, Berlin

Kevin Grimes MD, MA, MBA 

  • Professor, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology
  • Co- Director, SPARK Translational Research Program, Stanford University 

Atul Dandekar

  • Chief Stratey Office, Maze Therapeutics
  • Former VP of Global Ophthalmology Franchise at Genetech