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DEPARTMENT OF WAR - CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Lyle Ostrow, M.D., Ph.D. (Chair)
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Katja Brose, Ph.D.
Consultant

Dan Elbaum, Ph.D.
QurAlis

Ernest Fraenkel, Ph.D.
MIT Department of Biological Engineering

Maj. Timothy Fullam, M.D., U.S. Air Force Retired
Barrow Neurological Institute

Molly Hammell, Ph.D.
NYU Langone Health

Moon Han, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Sc.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Matt Harms, M.D.
Columbia University

Justin Kwan, M.D.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Division of Intramural Research

Joseph Lewcock, Ph.D.
Denali Therapeutics

Michael Robinson, M.D.
Healey Platform Trial Patient Advisor

Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, Ph.D., M.S.
Harvard Medical School

Nadia Sethi, D.D.S.
Northeast ALS Consortium Patient Education and Advocacy Committee

David Taylor, Ph.D.
ALS Society of Canada

Ad Hoc Programmatic Reviewers

Last updated Tuesday, January 6, 2026