We Bring Breadth and Depth of Experience to the Table
All of us have collaborated on large-scale genetics projects and all of us have been involved in identifying novel genetic variations and biological pathways implicated in Alzheimer’s Disease – or disease resistance. We are founding members of the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP), and the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP).
Executive Committee

Jonathan Haines, PhD
The Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
CADRE: Contact MPI, strategic leadership; multi-locus analysis

Margaret (Peggy) Pericak-Vance, PhD
John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
CADRE: MPI, strategic leadership; association analysis

Lindsay Farrer, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine
CADRE: MPI, epigenetic and mitochondrial analysis

William (Will) S. Bush, PhD
The Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
CADRE: MPI, bioinformatics analysis, variant prioritization, and drug target prioritization

Eden Martin, PhD
John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
CADRE: MPI, assessment of local ancestry and genetic fine mapping

Richard Mayeux, MD, MsC
Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, at Columbia University
CADRE: Neurological phenotypes and family studies of Caribbean populations

Gerard Schellenberg, PhD
Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
CADRE: Strategic leadership, functional genomics
NIGADS: Investigators
ADGC: Principle Investigator

Li-San Wang, PhD
Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
CADRE: Data management and variant calling
NGADS: Principle Investigator
GCAD: Co-director
Meet our Teams
Lindsay Farrer, PhD
Jaeyoon Chung, PhD
John Farrell, PhD
Junming Hu, MEng
Gyungah Jun, PhD
Moon Il Kang, PhD
Dhonge Li, PhD
Kathy Lunetta, PhD
Jesse Mez, MD, MS
Nicholas O’Neill, BS
Rick Sherva, PhD
Marlene Tajeda, BS
Tong Tong, PhD
Xiaoling Zhang, PhD
Congcong Zhu, MS
Jonathan Haines, PhD
William (Will) S. Bush, PhD
Jacquelaine Bartlett, MS
Penny Benchek, PhD
Michelle Grunin, PhD
Bowen Jin, BS
Audrey Lynn, MS, PhD
Leighanne Main, BS
Michael Osterman, BS, MPH
Yeunjoo Song, PhD
Nick Wheeler, PhD
Richard Mayeux, MD, MsC
Badri Vardarajan, PhD, MS
Sandra Barral-Rodriguez, PhD
Rong Cheng, PhD
Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer, BS
Christiane Reitz, MD, PhD
Giuseppe Tosto, MD, PhD
Clifton Dalgard, PhD
Margaret (Peggy) Pericak-Vance, PhD
Eden Martin, PhD
Gary Beecham, PhD
Michael Cuccaro, PhD
Tony Griswold, PhD
Kara Hamilton-Nelson, MPH
Melissa Jean-Francois, MPH
Brian Kunkle, PhD, MPH
Nicholas Kushch, MS
Jeremy Pasteris, MS
Farid Rajabli, PhD
Mike Schmidt, PhD
Jeffery Vance, MD, PhD
Jerry Schellenberg, PhD
Li-San Wang, PhD
Adam Naj, PhD
Fanny Leung, PhD
Wan-Ping Lee, PhD
Otto Valladares, MS
Laura Cantwell, MS
Amanda Kuzma, MS
John Malamon, PhD
Timothy Thornton, PhD
Contact Us
Administratively housed at Case Western Reserve University with support from all participating academic institutions
Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
2103 Cornell Road, Suite 2500
Cleveland, Ohio 44106