People

Principal Investigators

Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Systems
and Therapeutics & Taube/Koret
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Gladstone Institutes
Professor, Departments of Neurology and Physiology
University of California,
San Francisco

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Daniel Finley, PhD

Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

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Judith Frydman, PhD

Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of Genetics and Biology
Stanford University

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Jason Gestwicki, PhD

Professor
University of California, San Francisco

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Jeffery Kelly, PhD

Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute

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Richard I. Morimoto, PhD

Bill and Gayle Cook
Professor of Biology
Director, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research
Department of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University

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Miguel Prado, PhD

Institute Investigator
Proteomics and Proteostasis group
Asturias, Spain
Health Research Institute of Asturias (ISPA)

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Chief Scientific Officer

Eugenia Clerico, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer
Proteostasis Consortium

Team Leaders

Ching-Chieh (Ian) Chou, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging, Cytonuclear Proteostasis Network

Lisa Elia, PhD

Scientific Program Leader II
Gladstone Institutes/UCSF

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging

Suzanne Elsasser, PhD

Research Associate in Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Team Leader: Human Proteostasis Network Annotation

Sue Fox

Research Lab Manager
Northwestern University

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging, Cytonuclear Proteostasis Network

Dan Garza, PhD

Scientific Coordinator
Scripps Research Institute

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging, Small Molecule Proteostasis Regulators

Brian Hodge, PhD

Specialist
University of California, San Francisco

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging, Small Molecule Proteostasis Regulators

Austin Holub, MS

Research Engineer I
Gladstone Institutes

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging

Roy Kurtzbard, MPhil

PhD Student (jointly)
University of Cambridge/Northwestern University

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging, Human Proteostasis Network Annotation

Patricia Martinez Botía, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
ISPA Institute, Spain

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging, Human Proteostasis Network Annotation

Evan Powers, PhD

Principal Investigator
Scripps Research Institute

Team Leader: Human Proteostasis Network Annotation

Derek Rhoades, PhD

Staff Scientist
The Scripps Research Institute

Team Leader: Small Molecule Proteostasis Regulators

Kai Richter, PhD

Research Fellow in Cell Biology (INT)
Harvard Medical School

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging

Thomas Stoeger, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University

Team Leader: Human Proteostasis Network Annotation

Anan Yu, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Northwestern University

Team Leader: The Proteostasis Network as a Clock for Healthy Aging, Cytonuclear Proteostasis Network

External Advisors

Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD

Professor Developmental and Molecular Biology
Robert and Renée Belfer Chair for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Co-director of the Einstein Institute for Aging Research
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York