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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Henry Scott-Green
DIRECTOR
Technology founder, backed by Google Ventures
Ex-product manager, Google
Graduate of UCL
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Kelly Fearnley
DIRECTOR
Medical doctor at NHS England
Graduate of University of Leeds
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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
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Sean McGowan
ADVOCATE
AI/ML researcher
Director of Scientific Operations at longevity co
Graduate of Dartmouth
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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
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Siebe Rozendal
TRIALS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Ex-community manager at Effective Altruism
Graduate of University of Groningen
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Rohan Dixit
ADVOCATE
Technology founder at Lief Therapeutics
Ex-neuroscience researcher at Harvard and Stanford
Graduate of Northwestern