Our Staff

Our staff works for CHDI Management. CHDI Management provides administrative, management, and contracting services to CHDI Foundation, as well as to other non-profit organizations dedicated to HD research. CHDI Management has offices in Los Angeles CA, New York NY, and Princeton NJ.

Staff list

Jeff Aaronson Director, Bioinformatics	Modupe Akinmade-Faniyi, MPH Program Manager
Joshua Alper, PhD Director, Biophysics	Punit Ambre, PhD Clinical Data Systems Administrator
Emilie Anderson, MSLIS E-Resources Librarian & Office Manager	Rahul Atmaramani, PhD Director, Target Validation & Cell Biology
Samantha Autar Clinical Research Program Manager	Hoda Bahgat Program Manager
Jonathan Bard, PhD Director, Molecular Pharmacology	Ruth Basu Chief Administrative Officer
Irina Batushansky Program Manager, Team Lead	Vahri Beaumont, PhD Vice President, Preclinical Biology
Paolo Beuzer, PhD Director, Translational Biomarkers	Kate Bifulco, MBA Clinical Research Program Manager
Crystal Blankenbaker Digital Technology Program Manager	Robi Blumenstein President
Martina Blumenthal, PhD Preclincal Operations Lead	Braden Boone Program Manager
Kiran Borkar, MPH Clinical Operations Team Lead	Julien Boudet, PhD Director, Computational Drug Discovery and Structural Biology
Nicole Bracy-Johnson Clinical Research Program Manager	Roger Cachope, MD, MS Director, Systems Neurobiology
Sherise Cardwell Office Manager	Emily Carragher Clinical Research Program Manager
Nina Cerminaro Program Manager	Richard Chen, PhD Director, Genome Engineering & Drug Discovery
Jian Chen, PhD Director, Network Modeling & Bioinformatics	Esteban Chen, PMP Clinical Research Program Manager
Megan DeLeon Program Manager	Docia Demmin, PhD Director, Assessment Development
Kiran Deshmukh Program Manager	Anna Dickstein, MPH Clinical Research Program Manager
Liz Doherty, PhD Director, Medicinal Chemistry	Robert Doot, PhD Director, Molecular Neuroimaging
Raghuvar Dronamraju, PhD Director, Epigenetics & Genomics	Jennifer (Shapiro) Dziurzynski Director, Program Management
Asmaa Elbenni Clinical Research Program Manager	Illona Feldman Clinical Research Program Manager
Dan Felsenfeld, PhD Director, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine	Michael Finley, PhD Director, Target Validation and Drug Discovery
Darren Freeman Data Manager	Rebecca Fuller, PhD Vice President, Clinical Outcomes
Evelyn Galstian Director, Program Management	Anju Gangadharan, PhD Director, Clinical Biorepository
Emily Gantman, PhD Vice President	Fan Gao, MBA Program Manager
Doneshia Garner Program Manager	David George, MBA Clinical Research Program Manager
Tamara Gillot Clinical Research Program Manager	Nilajah Graham Clinical Research Program Manager
Jamie Hamilton, PhD Director, Clinical Outcome Assessments	Tasir Haque, PhD Director, Medicinal Chemistry
Denise Henry, MS Program Manager	Todd Herbst Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics Program Manager
Stephen Horvath, MBA Clinical Research Program Manager	David Howland, PhD Vice President, Preclinical Biology
Ahmad Hussein Clinical Research Program Manager	Brianna Jackson Office Administrator
Kristin Jenkins Meetings & Events Manager	Ayisha Jones Office Administrator
Natallia Kalinava, PhD Director, Clinical Wet Biomarkers Discovery	Arun Karpur, MD, MPH Director, Clinical Statistics
Julia Keklak, MS Clinical Operations Team Lead	Alison Khan Talent Manager
Jannie Kim, MPH Clinical Research Program Manager	John King Finance Administrator
Abby Korintus, MBA Program Manager	Mansi Kunte, PhD Clinical Research Program Manager
Seung Kwak, PhD Director, Molecular Systems	Brenda Lager Platform Lead, In Vivo Biomaterials Management
Oxana Lavrova, MBA Director, Program Management	Ramee Lee, PhD Director, Molecular Networks
Jamie Levey, MBA Co-Director, Clinical Research Platform*	Qingqin S. Li, PhD Director, Human Genetics/Genomics
Stuart Licht, PhD Director, Protein Biochemistry & Drug Discovery	Sherry Lifer Vice President, Program Management
Longbin Liu, PhD Director, Medicinal Chemistry	Douglas Macdonald, PhD Director, Research Operations and Scientific Alliances
Mithra Mahmoudi, MS Platform Lead, Reagents & Research Tools	Vladimir Maiorov, PhD Platform Lead, Compound Management and Cheminformatics
Alexandra Mansbach, JD Director, Enroll-HD 2.0 Planning & Implementation	Deanna Marchionini, PhD Director, Discovery Biology
Alexandra Canori Matthews, PhD Director, Digital Assessment	George McAllister, PhD Director, HTT Lowering Pharmacology*
John McCool Program Manager, Team Lead	Briana McLeod, MPH Clinical Research Program Manager
Carl Meinhof, PhD Director, Informatics	Liliana Menalled, PhD Director, In Vivo Pharmacology
Jonathan Mendez Information Technology Support Lead	Lydia Milbury Clinical Research Program Manager
Noopur Modi Director, Clinical Operations - Enroll	Rida Mohammed Data Program Manager
Keshia Monroe Program Manager	Edith Monteagudo, PhD Director, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics*
Crystal Morgan Clinical Research Program Manager	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
Akshara Patel Clinical Research Program Manager	Alex Pero, MPH Clinical Research Program Manager
Brinda Prasad, PhD Director, Protein Structure Function and Biomarkers	Alicia Preiss Director, Program Management
Jada Prescott IT Project Administrator	Harriet Prescott Office Manager
Travis Price Enterprise Applications Lead	Sharon Purcell Clinical Research Program Manager
Dorian Pustina, PhD Director, Experimental Neuroimaging	Chris Rackow Director, Information Technology
Shauna Rahim, PHR, SHRM-CP Human Resources Director	Cloe Rankin Office Administrator
David Rankin Chief Legal Officer	Tamara Rehl Program Manager
Kelsey Ricci, MA Clinical Research Program Manager	Matthew Roche, PhD Director, Outcomes Research
Robert Romeo Clinical Software Development & Administration Manager	Jim Rosinski, PhD Director, Computational Biology
Cristina Sampaio, MD, PhD Chief Medical Officer	Migdalia Sanchez Office Administrator
Swati Sathe, MD Medical Vice President, Clinical Research	Mark Schoenberg, CPA Controller
Jade Shevchenko Clinical Operations Team Lead	Patrick Sicilia Program Manager, Team Lead
Faez Siddiqi, PhD Director, Clinical Wet Biomarkers Development	Ethan Signer, PhD Senior Scientific Advisor Emeritus
Rachel Silva Program Manager	Neha Sinha, PhD Director, Clinical Assessment Methodology
Mette Skinbjerg, PhD Director, Clinical Neuroimaging	Balajee Somalinga, PhD Director, RNA Biology
Andy Stamford, PhD Vice President, Chemistry	Haiying Tang, PhD Director, Clinical & Translational Neuroimaging
Allan Tobin, PhD Senior Scientific Advisor Emeritus	Sandra Tran Program Manager
Helena Tran Program Manager, Team Lead	Theresa Troutman Office Administrator
Jennifer Tung Program Manager	Jerry Turner Director, Meetings & Events
Muriel Valencia Program Manager	Mark Vanderveken Vice President, Legal
Karin Vislocka, MRA Clinical Research Program Manager	Thomas F. Vogt, PhD Vice President, Preclinical Biology
Jen Ware, PhD Director, Scientific Insight & Analytics	John Warner, PhD Director, Biostatistics
Sarah Weingast Program Manager, Team Lead	Amy Weiss, MA Program Manager
Sagarika Wijeratne Director, Program Management	Hilary Wilkinson, PhD Vice President, Fluid Biomarkers
Andrew Wood, PhD Vice President, Clinical Neuroimaging Research	Faraz Zaidi Program Manager
Victoria Zolfaghari, MPH Clinical Research Program Manager