Organization

Coordinators

Gordon Freedman, MitoWorld, National Laboratory for Education Transformation, NLET
Michael Murphy, PhD, Murphy Group (University of Cambridge)

Primary Organizing Committee

Patrick Chinnery, MD, PhD, University of Cambridge, MRC-UKRI (organizing chair)
Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara, MD, PhD, University of Helsinki (research-medical chair)
Phillip West, The Jackson Laboratory (major test bed partner lead)
Jared Rutter, PhD, University of Utah (management structure)

Primary MITOS Fellows (Proposed)

Douglas Wallace, PhD, Children’s Hospital Philadelphia (core mapping)
Craig Thompson, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering (cancer community)

Primary Support Organizers

Matthew Hirschey, Duke & Heureka Labs (major AI-platform advisor)
Jeremy Abbate, Publisher, Scientific American (major media advisor)
Jon Brestoff, Washington University (leading-edge science advisor)

Initial Network Members & Research Area Task Force Leads

Chair, Research Network: Navdeep Chandel, PhD (Northwestern)

Signaling: Navdeep Chandel, PhD (Northwestern)
“Mitochondria as a signaling hub”

Aging: Andrew Dillin, PhD (UC Berkeley)
“Mitochondria as a central integrator of the aging process”

Mitochondrial Dynamics: Heidi McBride, PhD (McGill)
“Integration of mitochondria into cell and systems biology”

mtDNA Editing: Carlos Moraes, PhD (University of Miami)
“Manipulating mitochondrial genome toward gene therapy for mitochondrial diseases”

Non-Genetic Pathologies: Mike Murphy, PhD (Cambridge)
“Secondary, non-genetic mitochondrial pathologies that contribute to the pathogenesis”