Our Team

We are a group of motivated, passionate and focused individuals with strong scientific backgrounds. All proposal reviews and funding decisions are carried out exclusively by this in-house team. The team members have left the traditional path of an experimental biologist and no longer have any conflicting interests in academic science. Having a team dedicated to one cause has enabled the Jain Foundation to become a center of excellence, capable of comprehensive and real time assessment of the state of the dysferlin field, combined with the means to foster collaborations between previously isolated researchers.

• Plavi Mittal
  
  President & CEO
   
   
• Douglas Albrecht
  
  Director of Research and Therapeutic Discovery
   
• Laura Rufibach
  
  Director of Research and Clinical Strategies
   
• Esther Hwang
  
  Director of Patient Relations and Diagnostics
• Elaine Lee
  
  Research Program Officer
   
   
• Hillarie Windish
  
  Research Program Officer
   
   
• Bradley Williams
  
  Director of Research
   
   
   
• Nilah Monnier
  
  Consultant
   
   
   
• Sarah Shira
  
  Office and Program Manager