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Meet the First Atom 
Team 

Executive Leadership

Bradlee Heckmann

President and Chief Scientific Officer

Co-Founder |Bio

Brian Knight

Brian Knight, PhD

Vice President

Synthetic Chemistry

David Sobek

David Sobek, PhD

Vice President

Director of Business Development

Julia Hallisey

Chief Operating Officer

Co-Founder | Bio

James Leahy

James Leahy, PhD

Principal, Medicinal Chemistry

Wayne Guida

Wayne Guida, PhD

Senior Technology Advisor

Rainer Metcalf

Chief Technology Officer

Co-Founder | Bio

Elphine Telles

Elphine Telles, PhD

Vice President

Research and Development

Board of Directors

Sam Shrivastava

Sam Shrivastava, MS

Chairman & CEO

Founder, Asha Therapeutics

Bio

Craig Blackstone

Craig Blackstone, MD, PhD

Scientific Director & Professor

Mass General Brigham

Neuroscience Institute

Harvard Medical School

Bio

Gopal Thinakaran

Gopal Thinakaran, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Byrd Alzheimer's Disease Center

USF Health Neuroscience Institute

Bio

Advisory Board

Jeffery Milbrandt, MD, PhD

James S. McDonnell Professor

of Genetics

Wash U. Medicine

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Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD

Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor

of Developmental Biology

Wash U. Medicine

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Craig Blackstone, MD, PhD

Advisory Chair

Scientific Director & Professor

Mass General Brigham

Neuroscience Institute

Harvard Medical School

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Walter Koroshetz, MD, PhD

Emeritus Director

National Institute for Neurological

Disorders and Stroke

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Allan Levey, MD, PhD

Director & Professor

Emory Alzheimer's Disease

Research Center

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Jeffery Rothstein, MD, PhD

John W. Griffin Director & Professor

Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute

Packard ALS Center

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Navdeep Chandel, PhD

David W. Cugell, MD,

Professor of Medicine

Northwestern University

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Michael Gold, MD

Chief R&D Officer

Compass Pathways

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