Executive Profile

James Heywood Co-Founder and Chairman, PatientsLikeMe, Inc.

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Background

Mr. James Allen Heywood, Jamie Co-Founded PatientsLikeMe Inc., in 2004 and serves as its Chairman of the Board. Mr. Heywood faced with his 29 year old brother Stephen's diagnosis of ALS in 1998, he founded ALS TDI, the world's first nonprofit biotechnology company, and applied his engineering and management skills to dramatically accelerate ALS research. ALS TDI broke new ground on many fronts and has become widely recognized as one of the most promising and innovative ... research organizations. Under his leadership, ALS TDI implemented an industrialized therapeutic validation process and built one of the world's leading ALS drug discovery programs. ALS TDI was the first organization to run an open research program, posting in real time the results of its studies for patients, doctors, and the research community. It also pioneered a new model for engaging patients and families in fund raising and actively involving them in ALS research. Over 100 families have joined with Heywood, Stephen and the Heywood's to fund these innovative efforts. ALS TDI has raised tens of millions of dollars through its philanthropic, corporate, and government programs, culminating in the historic discovery partnership in 2007 with Augie's Quest and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. An MIT Engineer, he is an active investor and advisor to startups and companies and non profits working improve the way in which biomedical research is conducted. Jamie's work has been profiled in the New Yorker, 60 Minutes, Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Wiener's book, His Brothers Keeper, and in the Sundance award winning documentary So Much So Fast.

Corporate Headquarters 155 Second Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02141 United States Phone: 617-499-4003 Fax: -- Board Members Memberships Co-Founder and Chairman PatientsLikeMe, Inc. Founder and Director ALS Therapy Development Institute Education There is no Education data available. Other Affiliations ALS Therapy Development Institute

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