Todd Sherer, chief executive of the Michael J Fox Foundation, has been named to the advisory council of the newly created US National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. The center is part of the National Institutes of Health and is dedicated to driving translational research from the identification of new drugs to their testing in humans and launch onto the marketplace. Dr Sherer will serve on the panel until 2015.
The Michael J Fox Foundation announced the appointment on 14 September 2012.
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