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External Program Consultants (EPC)

The ADSP overall and several of its components have External Program Consultants (EPCs) who provide feedback to the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and ADSP investigators on progress toward scientific goals and offer guidance on future directions. EPCs for ADSP and ADSP components are listed below.

ADSP

Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project

Kristen Brennand, Yale University
Maria Carrillo, Alzheimer’s Association
Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University
Ron Do, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Albert La Spada, University of California, Irvine
Sriram Sankararaman, University of California, Los Angeles
Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania
Donna Wilcock, Indiana University
Wei Zheng, Vanderbilt University

FunGen-AD

Functional Genomics Consortium

Matt Blurton-Jones, University of California, Irvine
Steve Finkbeiner, Gladstone Institutes/University of California, San Francisco
Stephen Helfand, Brown University
Catherine Kaczorowski, University of Michigan
Leslie Thompson, University of California, Irvine
Donna Wilcock, Indiana University
Gene Yeo, University of California, San Diego
Hongyu Zhao, Yale University

AI/ML

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Consortium

Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas Nichols, Oxford University
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University
Hongyu Zhao, Yale University

PHC

Phenotype Harmonization Consortium

Maria Carrillo, Alzheimer’s Association
Bill Jagust, University of California, Berkeley
Mike Nalls, NIH Intramural Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias (CARD)
Donna Wilcock, Indiana University

NIAGADS

National Institute on Aging Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease Data Storage Site

Mark Daly, Broad Institute
Matt Farrer, University of Florida
Barry Greenberg, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Brad Hyman, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University

GCAD

Genome Center for Alzheimer’s Disease

Mike Boehnke, University of Michigan
Steve Rich, University of Virginia
Hongyu Zhao, Yale University

ADGC

Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium

Mike Boehnke, University of Michigan
Steve Rich, University of Virginia

CADRE

Alzheimer Disease Sequence Analysis Collaborative

Sergio Baranzini, University of California, San Francisco
Mike Boehnke, University of Michigan
Joe Buxbaum, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Hank Paulson, University of Michigan

CHARGE

Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Consortium

James Meigs, Harvard University
Braxton Mitchel, University of Maryland
Zhiping Weng, University of Massachusetts

NIA-AD FBS

National Institute on Aging Alzheimer’s Disease Family-Based Study

Bruce Miller, University of California, San Francisco
Chiadi Onyike, Johns Hopkins University
Hank Paulson, University of Michigan
Rosa Rademakers, University of Antwerp