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About Us
Experienced management team and world class advisors

Our experienced team includes Drug Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry, Neuroscience, Neuropharmacology, and Neurobiology expertise. We operate out of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab in Boston, MA.

Meet the team
Management team

Luca Giani

Co-founder, CEO

Lisa Paborsky, PhD

Senior Strategic Advisor

Amy Elder, PhD

Head of Drug Discovery

Jonathan Levenson, PhD

Translational Biology

Zaven Kaprielian, PhD

CSO

Kelley C. Larson, MLA

Head of Neuropharmacology

Scientific advisors

Elias Pavlopoulos, PhD

Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration

Barbara Tate, PhD

Neuroscience

Larry Steinman, MD

Neurology

Fares Nigim, MD, PhD

Co-Founder, Translational Neuroscience

Emanuele Buratti, PhD

TDP-43, ALS and FTD Pre-clinical

Rosana Kapeller, MD, PhD

Blavatnik Fellowship Advisor

Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD

ALS Clinical Sciences

John Landers, PhD

ALS Genetics and Pre-clinical Sciences

Christiano Alves, PhD

Neurobiology

Stephen Haggarty, PhD

Chemical Neurobiology

Brad Dickerson, MD

Frontotemporal Disorders

John Chen, MD, PhD

Diagnostic Neuroimaging

Our lab

We are incubated at the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab. This state-of-the-art facility provides us with the instruments, resources and support we need to advance our experimental plan and perform assays to test our proprietary new chemical entities against neurodegenerative diseases.

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Sponsors and supporters

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