Scientific Co-Founders
Gabsang Lee, PhD
Gabsang Lee, PhD, is currently associate professor in the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he continues his research on peripheral nerve disease (Charcot-Marie-Tooth, congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis, familial dysautonomia) and muscular dystrophies (Duchenne and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophies). Dr. Lee received his PhD from Seoul National University.
Alan Friedman, PhD
Alan Friedman, PhD is professor of pediatric oncology at Johns Hopkins University. He attended Harvard Medical School and did his pediatric residency at Boston Children’s Hospital, before coming to Baltimore in 1986 for fellowship training. Dr. Friedman laboratory focuses on regulation of myeloid cell development and leukemic transformation by transcription factors. He has pioneered the use of immature myeloid cells lacking NF-κB p50 (p50-IMC) as immunotherapy for cancer.