Our Staff
CHDI Management provides administrative, management, and contracting services to CHDI Foundation, as well as to other non-profit organizations dedicated to HD research. We have offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and Princeton, New Jersey.
Staff list
Jeff Aaronson Director, Bioinformatics |
Mona Abughaida Clinical Research Program Manager |
Morshed Alam, PhD Director, Clinical Statistics |
Emilie Anderson, MSLIS E-Resources Librarian & Office Administrator |
Maya Bader, PhD Program Manager |
Hoda Bahgat Program Manager |
Jonathan Bard, PhD Director, Molecular Pharmacology |
Ruth Basu Chief Administrative Officer |
Irina Batushansky Program Manager |
Vahri Beaumont, PhD Director, Neurobiology |
Robi Blumenstein President |
Martina Blumenthal, PhD Program Manager |
Kiran Borkar, MPH Clinical Research Program Manager |
Mark Burton Software Applications Manager |
Roger Cachope, MD, MS Director, Systems Neurobiology |
Richard Chen, PhD Director, Genome Engineering & Drug Discovery |
Jian Chen, PhD Director, Network Modeling & Bioinformatics |
Lindsay Cherneski, MA Clinical Research Program Manager |
Kinga Chrobak Clinical Research Program Manager |
Maxine Crooks Clinical Research Program Manager |
Prachi Dalal Clinical Research Program Manager |
Jaimie DellaVella Office Administrator |
Shilpa Deshpande, MBA Director, Clinical Operations - Enroll |
Valentina Dilda, PhD Director, Experimental Medicine |
Liz Doherty, PhD Director, Medicinal Chemistry |
Celia Dominguez, PhD Vice President, Chemistry |
Ken Duphiney Contracts Administrator |
Jennifer (Shapiro) Dziurzynski Program Manager |
Anka Ehrhardt, PhD Director, Bio Fluid Clinical Research |
Adam Ellenberger Clinical Research Program Manager |
Pua Feigenbaum, PhD Clinical Research Program Manager and Study Lead, FuRST2.0 |
Illona Feldman Clinical Research Program Manager |
Dan Felsenfeld, PhD Director, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine |
Louides Ferdinand Program Manager |
Darren Freeman Data Manager |
Rebecca Fuller, PhD Director, Clinical Outcomes |
Evelyn Galstian Program Manager |
Emily Gantman, PhD Director, Strategic Projects and Planning |
Natasha Ghosh Clinical Research Program Manager |
Sandra Gonzalez, MS Clinical Research Program Manager |
Joseph Greenstein Compound Management & Cheminformatics Program Manager |
Jamie Hamilton, PhD Director, Clinical Outcome Assessments |
Tasir Haque, PhD Director, Medicinal Chemistry |
Victoria Hashiguchi Office Administrator |
Todd Herbst Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics Program Manager |
David Howland, PhD Director, Model Systems |
Ravi Iyer, PhD Director, Protein Function & Drug Discovery |
Carol Jacobsen, JD Director, Clinical Operations |
Sung-Wook Jang, PhD Director, Early Discovery Initiative |
Kristin Jenkins Office Manager/Meeting & Event Coordinator |
Ayisha Jones Office Administrator |
Julia Keklak, MS Clinical Research Program Manager, Biorepository |
Alison Khan Office Administrator & Recruiting Support |
Vinod Khetarpal, PhD Director, DMPK |
John King Finance Administrator |
Seung Kwak, PhD Director, Molecular Systems |
Brenda Lager Genetically Modified Animal Program Manager |
Oxana Lavrova, MBA Program Manager |
Ramee Lee, PhD Director, Molecular Networks |
Jamie Levey, MBA Co-Director, Clinical Research Platform* |
Eva Li Clinical Research Program Manager |
Sherry Lifer Director, Contract Finance & Operations |
Longbin Liu, PhD Director, Medicinal Chemistry |
Douglas Macdonald, PhD Director, Research Operations and Scientific Alliances |
Mithra Mahmoudi Program Manager, Research Tools & BioRepositories |
Michel Maillard, PhD Director, Medicinal Chemistry |
Deanna Marchionini, PhD Director, Discovery Biology |
George McAllister, PhD Director, HTT Lowering Pharmacology* |
John McCool Program Manager |
Carl Meinhof, PhD Director, Informatics |
Liliana Menalled, PhD Director, In Vivo Pharmacology |
Noopur Modi Clinical Research Program Manager |
Rida Mohammed Data Program Manager |
Ignacio Munoz-Sanjuan, PhD Vice President, Translational Biology |
Eileen Neacy Chief Operating Officer |
Elena Ngangom Clinical Research Program Manager |
Simon Noble, PhD Director, Scientific Communications |
Robert Pacifici, PhD Chief Scientific Officer |
Elena Pak Clinical Research Program Manager and Study Lead, HDClarity |
Nikki Palasits Clinical Research Program Manager |
Liuba Parfenova, PhD Program Manager |
Foram Patel Clinical Research Program Manager |
Nikolay Plotnikov, PhD Director, Computational Molecular Modeling & Structural Biology |
Brinda Prasad, PhD Director, Protein Structure Function and Biomarkers |
Alicia Preiss Program Manager |
Harriet Prescott Facilities Administrator and Project Support |
Travis Price Training Program Manager |
Sharon Purcell Program Manager |
Dorian Pustina, PhD Director, Experimental Neuroimaging |
Chris Rackow Director, Information Technology |
Shauna Rahim, SHRM-CP Human Resources Manager |
David Rankin Chief Legal Officer |
Faisal Rashid Clinical Research Program Manager |
Kelsey Ricci, MA Clinical Research Program Manager |
Miah Roberts, MPH Clinical Research Program Manager |
Matthew Roché, PhD Director, Outcomes Research |
Jim Rosinski, PhD Director, Computational Biology |
Cristina Sampaio, MD, PhD Chief Clinical Officer |
Swati Sathe, MD Medical Director, Clinical Research |
Ananya Sengupta, PhD Program Manager |
Ethan Signer, PhD Senior Scientific Advisor Emeritus |
Mette Skinbjerg, PhD Director, Clinical Neuroimaging |
Balajee Somalinga, PhD Director, RNA Biology |
Seema Sukhram, MS, PMP Clinical Research Program Manager |
Haiying Tang, PhD Director, Clinical & Translational Neuroimaging |
Allan Tobin, PhD Senior Scientific Advisor Emeritus |
Sandra Tran Program Manager |
Helena Tran Program Manager |
Jerry Turner Meeting & Event Manager |
Saba Vemuri Program Manager |
Abhishek Vishnu, PhD Director, Clinical Epidemiology |
Thomas F. Vogt, PhD Vice President, Drug Discovery Genotype & Phenotype Unit |
Yuchuan Wang, PhD Director, Molecular Neuroimaging |
Jen Ware, PhD Director, Experimental Design |
John Warner, PhD Director, Biostatistics |
Amy Weiss, MA Program Manager |
Sagarika Wijeratne Clinical Research Program Manager |
Hilary Wilkinson, PhD Director, Unbiased Systems Biology & Target Validation |
Melissa Williams Controller |
Priscila Winkowski Clinical Research Program Manager |
Andrew Wood, PhD Vice President, Clinical Neuroimaging Research |