Dr. Merit Cudkowicz is the Executive Director of the MGB Neuroscience Institute and Director of the Healey & AMG Center for ALS at MGH and the Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cudkowicz is one of the founders of the Northeast ALS Consortium (NEALS), a group of over 150 international clinical sites dedicated to performing collaborative clinical trials and research studies in ALS. She is leading the first Platform Trial initiative in ALS and is also the Principal Investigator of the Clinical Coordination Center for NIH supported NeuroNEXT network.