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External Program Consultants (EPC)

Listed below are the external program consultants for each of the consortia and programs in ADSP. Board members meet at least once annually with the individual consortia to review and assure progress and provide expert advice.

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

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

AI/ML

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Consortium

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

PHC

Phenotype Harmonization Consortium

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

NIAGADS

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

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

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

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

CHARGE

Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology

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

NIA-AD FBS

The 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