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Scientific Advisory Board

Cheyenne M. Beach, MD (Bio)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT USA

Pascale de Lonlay, MD (Bio)
Head of Metabolic Unit and Reference Center of Metabolic Disease
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
Hospital Necker-Efants Malades, APHP, University Paris-Descartes, France
Paris, France

Brett H. Graham, MD PhD (Bio)
Associate Professor of Medical & Molecular Genetics
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN USA

Mary Kay Koenig, MD (Bio)
Associate Professor
Endowed Chair of Mitochondrial Medicine
UT Mitochondrial Center of Excellence Director
UTHealth | McGovern Medical School
Houston, TX USA

Christina Miyake, MD, MS (Bio)
Associate Professor – Pediatrics (TCH)
Associate Professor – Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (BCM)
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX USA

Felix Distelmaier, MD PhD (Bio)
Senior Physician, Medical Director of Neuropediatrics and Outpatient Department for Mitochondrial Diseases
University Hospital Dusseldorf
Dusseldorf, Germany

Jerry Vockley, MD PhD (Bio)
Director, Center for Rare Disease Therapy
Chief, Medical Genetics
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Clinical Advisory Board

Cheyenne M. Beach, MD (Bio)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT USA

Lina Ghaloul Gonzalez, MD (Bio)
Assistant Professor
Division of Genetic and Genomic Medicine
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

David P. Harris, MD (Bio)
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Seema Lalani, MD (Bio)
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX USA

Pascale de Lonlay, MD (Bio)
Head of Metabolic Unit and Reference Center of Metabolic Disease
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
Hospital Necker-Efants Malades, APHP, University Paris-Descartes, France
Paris, France

Samuel Mackenzie, MD, PhD (Bio)
Assistant Professor
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY USA

Christina Miyake, MD, MS (Bio)
Associate Professor – Pediatrics (TCH)
Associate Professor – Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (BCM)
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX USA

Josh Meisner, MD, PhD (Bio)
Pediatric Cardiology
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Lilei Zhang, MD, PhD (Bio)
Associate Professor
Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX USA

Our Mission

Our mission is to lead the way in finding a cure for TANGO2 related disease. We will do this by helping to fund, coordinate and guide scientific research that leads to a better understanding of how TANGO2 mutations affect people at the most basic cellular and biochemical pathway levels.