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DEPARTMENT OF WAR - CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Mark R. Cookson, Ph.D. (Chair)
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

Shari Bridge (Consumer)
Parkinson’s Foundation

Karl E. Friedl, Ph.D.
U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

Kalpana Merchant
TransThera Consulting Co.

Ronald Pfeiffer, M.D.
Oregon Health and Science University

Israel Robledo (Consumer)
Michael J. Fox Foundation

Tatyana Simuni, M.D.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Kelly Sweeney (Consumer)
Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon

Laura Volpicelli-Daley, Ph.D.
University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine

Daniel Weintraub, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania

Last updated Tuesday, September 23, 2025