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IND is comprised of an accomplished team of physician investigators, study coordinators, neuropsychologists and imaging technologists. Our Board of Directors provides invaluable support and oversight.
Dr. Marek co-founded IND in 2001 and serves as IND’s Distinguished Scientist and Treasurer. Dr. Marek served as President of IND from its founding through 2018. Prior to founding IND, Dr. Marek was the Director of the Movement Disorders Center at the Yale University School of Medicine. He graduated from Princeton University (AB, biochemistry) and received his medical degree from Yale University. Dr. Marek was trained in internal medicine and neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He received further training as a post-doctoral fellow in neurochemistry at the Institute of Neurology, Queens Square, London. Prior to his move to Yale University he was a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Neurology. Dr. Marek has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including those from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense, American Heart Association, Parkinson Disease Foundation, and National Parkinson’s Foundation. He has been a recipient of the National Parkinson’s Foundation Richard E. Heikala Research Scholar Award, and the 2017 Robert A Pritzker Prize from the Michael J. Fox Foundation. He currently serves on the scientific advisory board of the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Dr. Marek has made significant research contributions in the identification of biomarkers for early detection, assessment of disease progression and development of new treatments for Parkinson disease and related neurodegenerative disorders, including Huntington disease, Alzheimer disease and dystonia. His specific interest has been in in vivo neuroreceptor imaging in Parkinson disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. He has authored numerous neurology and neuroscience publications on these topics. He has served as a consultant for numerous pharmaceutical companies and for the Veterans Administration. Dr. Marek is a principal investigator or coordinating principal investigator of several international studies investigating the use of imaging to assess the onset, progression and effect of treatment in Parkinson disease, including the Michael J. Fox Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative study (“PPMI”), working with 33 clinical sites in 11 counties.
Dr. Seibyl co-founded IND with Dr. Marek in 2001 and has provided scientific leadership since IND’s founding. Prior to IND, Dr. Seibyl was Chief, Section of Nuclear Medicine and Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree at Yale College and completed his medical degree at Case-Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Seibyl trained as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University where he won the Seymour Lustman Research Prize in the Department of Psychiatry two consecutive years. He joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor upon completion of this training. While on the psychiatry faculty Dr. Seibyl's interest in brain imaging led to his returning for a training Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at Yale under Dr. Paul Hoffer. He was recruited to the Diagnostic Radiology faculty and was appointed the Director of the NeuroSPECT Center, a clinical brain imaging research lab in the Section of Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Seibyl subsequently became Chief of the Section of Nuclear Medicine and Director of the Yale/VA PET Center. Dr. Seibyl has won numerous grants and contracts in the context of his work in brain imaging. He serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and is a frequent reviewer for top-tier nuclear imaging journals. He serves on international panels for his work in neurodegenerative disease imaging, working closely with Dr. Marek to establish the NeuroSPECT Center as the premier Parkinson disease brain imaging research center in the world. Recent projects include the development of a web-based normal brain image database, and on-going work applying brain imaging techniques and analytic methods to improve the diagnosis and assessment of disease status in patients with neurodegenerative diseases.
Mrs. Fabrizio joined the Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders in April 2021 as Chief Operating Officer. Mrs. Fabrizio has 20+ years of experience in clinical research and drug development and held numerous executive leadership roles in both small and mid-size pharmaceutical research organizations, including Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Clinical Data, Molecular NeuroImaging, Invicro and most recently On Target Laboratories. She received her BA from Quinnipiac College and has focused her career within the Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance arenas, which has included experience in multiple therapeutic areas including neuroscience, radiopharmaceuticals, oncology, anti-infective and CNS. Mrs. Fabrizio has regulatory leadership and strategy experience in early clinical research (Pre-IND) through to commercialization. She has successfully brought over 75 novel compounds into human investigation and led over 11 NDA/sNDA teams to successful review of marketing applications with the FDA CDER Division, as well having in depth experience in 21 CFR Part 11 and GDPR compliance. Her leadership breadth has spanned leading teams in GMP, GCP and System Validation Compliance areas to support clinical research. Her Quality Assurance leadership has included the implementation of Quality Management Programs at several startup companies, and she has successfully hosted health authority inspections from regulators of the FDA, DEA, NRC, and DEA.
As Chief Financial Officer, David Lunt oversees financial planning and analysis, accounting, tax, procurement, and treasury. David brings to the Institute more than 20 years of extensive experience in the field. Prior to The Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders, he was Director of Financial Planning and analysis at Cogstate, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Clinical Trials segment planning functions, including customer proposals and change orders. Previously, David worked at Molecular NeuroImaging / Invicro as Director of Finance, as well as Walker Digital in various business unit finance roles. David has earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting from Merrimack College.
Ms. Flagg joined the team at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders in April 2019. Ms. Flagg received her BA from Gettysburg College in 1996, at which time she started her career in research administration at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA working in the Institutional Review Board (IRB) office. In 2000, Ms. Flagg returned to her roots in western NY and pursued a new opportunity to expand her role in research at the University of Rochester as a project manager for multi- site clinical trials, primarily focused on Parkinson’s disease. Ms. Flagg then joined the IRB office to manage policies and procedures, as well as the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) ongoing certification for the University. After 18 years, Ms. Flagg departed the University of Rochester and is now the global project manager for the Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorder.
Bridget McMahon joined the team at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders in April 2021. A nurse by education and background, she comes with more than 15 years of experience in clinical research, mostly in leading clinical operations teams in trial execution at sites. For nine years Ms. McMahon led the clinical operations team at a private company, an early phase clinical trials center, located at the BioPark, University of Maryland. She managed more than 150 studies from feasibility assessment and study initiation through completion and data delivery. Additionally, she led teams conducting phase one trials on vaccine candidates for tropical and respiratory infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for five years. Ms. McMahon coordinated clinical trials at the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania for a year. As a nurse clinician at Johns Hopkins Hospital for seven years, Ms. McMahon worked with patients with mood disorders and eating disorders, including medically fragile individuals. Prior to beginning her nursing career, Ms. McMahon worked as a caseworker with homeless families in Kansas City, MO, and in long-term volunteer program leadership in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. McMahon has degrees from the University of Scranton (BA) and the University of Pennsylvania (BS Nursing) and now lives in Baltimore, MD.
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