Scientific advisory team

The scientific advisory team is fully independent, established to provide impartial scientific advice. Any views expressed by the LCRF do not necessarily reflect the views of individuals within the scientific advisory team, and vice versa. 

  • Portrait photo of Prof Mark Dybul

    Prof Mark Dybul

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • Ex-head of the Global Fund, the world's largest financier of AIDS, TB, and malaria prevention, treatment, and care programs, from 2012-2017

    • United States Global AIDS Coordinator 2006-2009 under G.W. Bush administration

    • Board member: Clinton Health Access Initiative, IAVI, Big Win Philanthropy, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Global Health Corps, and Enochian Biosciences

    • Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University

  • Portrait photo of Prof Zeke Emanuel

    Prof Zeke Emanuel

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

    • One of the 16 members of the President Biden COVID-19 Advisory Board

    • Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

    • Oncologist, bioethicist; ex-Harvard Medical School and ex-National Institutes of Health

  • Portrait photo of Prof Ed Mills

    Prof Ed Mills

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • Chief Executive Officer at Platform Life Sciences Inc. and the Principal Investigator of multiple adaptive platform trials, including the Covid-19 TOGETHER trial

    • Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Health Research Methods, Impact, and Evaluation as well as the University of Rwanda, School of Public Health. He is a Senior Scientist at VirX@Stanford

    • Dr. Mills has published more than 550 peer reviewed papers

  • Portrait photo of Dr Jennifer Curtin

    Dr Jennifer Curtin

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of RHTM, a Y-Combinator backed technology company building solutions for patients with infection-associated chronic illness.

    • Physician and post-viral illness expert specializing in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) and its comorbidities.

    • Member of the ME/CFS Clinician Coalition and co-authored the official clinical guidance for ME/CFS.

    • Dr. Curtin has a personal understanding of the difficulties Long Covid patients experience as she is a mostly recovered ME/CFS patient herself.

  • Portrait photo of Prof Jean Nachega

    Prof Jean Nachega

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

    • Infectious diseases specialist with a focus on improving the public health outcomes of people infected with HIV/AIDS.

    • Member of the African Academy of Sciences

  • Portrait photo of Prof Steven Deeks

    Prof Steven Deeks

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • Professor of Medicine in Residence at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

    • Faculty member in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

    • Internationally recognized expert on HIV pathogenesis and treatment, now leading a large program focused on the pathogenesis and treatment of Long COVID. Dr. Deeks has published over 650 peer-review articles.

    • Based on a recent study conducted at Stanford, he is among the top 0.01% of all scientists, based on citations.

  • Portrait photo of Prof Chris Butler

    Prof Chris Butler

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • Professor of Primary Care at Oxford University, where he leads the Infections and Acute Care Research Group.

    • Co-Chief Investigator of the PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC adaptive, platform, randomised, controlled trials of community treatments for COVID 19, that have recruited >38,000 participants and evaluated 9 medicines so far.

    • Published >500 papers and led or helped lead ~30 randomised clinical trials, and recently published trial results in the world’s top three general medical journals.

  • Portrait photo of Fran Brown

    Fran Brown

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • SVP Drug Development Science, Integrated Drug Development at Certara Inc.

    • 28 years experience within pharmaceutical development, with all phases of drug development including interactions with regulatory authorities during both the development and registration processes.

    • Broad knowledge of drug discovery and development principles and practice with special focus on risks associated with early projects.

  • Portrait photo of Prof Francois Venter

    Prof Francois Venter

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

    • His work involves health systems research that directly translates into national programmes, most recently involving the antiretrovirals, dolutegravir, tenofovir alafenamide, cabotegravir, and doravirine.

    • For over 20 years he has been an advisor to bodies such as the South African government, UNAIDS, and WHO, contributing to international, regional, and national HIV guidelines.

  • Portrait photo of Prof Michael Peluso

    Prof Michael Peluso

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

    • Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF.

    • Infectious disease clinical-translational physician-scientist focused on HIV and COVID-19.

    • Involved with clinical and laboratory research aimed at understanding the HIV reservoir and implementing clinical trials to disrupt the reservoir with the aim of inducing antiretroviral therapy-free HIV remission.

    • Highly active Long Covid researcher, leading an ongoing study of a large patient cohort.

Executive and Advocacy Team

  • Portrait photo of Nick Harrold

    Nick Harrold

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    • Ex-technology founder, backed by Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan

    • Ex-corporate finance at J.P. Morgan and others

    • Graduate of Oxford

  • Portrait photo of Henry Scott-Green

    Henry Scott-Green

    DIRECTOR

    • Technology founder, backed by Google Ventures

    • Ex-product manager, Google

    • Graduate of UCL

  • Portrait photo of Kelly Fearnley

    Kelly Fearnley

    DIRECTOR

    • Medical doctor at NHS England

    • Graduate of University of Leeds

  • Portrait photo of Chris Maddison

    Chris Maddison

    ADVOCATE

    • Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at University of Toronto

    • Senior Research Scientist at Deep Mind

    • Graduate of Oxford and University of Toronto

  • Portrait photo of Sean McGowan

    Sean McGowan

    ADVOCATE

    • AI/ML researcher

    • Director of Scientific Operations at longevity co

    • Graduate of Dartmouth

  • Portrait photo of Sean Murphy

    Sean Murphy

    ADVOCATE

    • Technology founder at Ping Things, backed by GE Ventures

    • Ex-senior scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

    • Graduate of Oxford, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland

  • Portrait photo of Siebe Rozendal

    Siebe Rozendal

    TRIALS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

    • Ex-community manager at Effective Altruism

    • Graduate of University of Groningen

  • Portrait photo of Rohan Dixit

    Rohan Dixit

    ADVOCATE

    • Technology founder at Lief Therapeutics

    • Ex-neuroscience researcher at Harvard and Stanford

    • Graduate of Northwestern