BERnARD RAvInA, MD, MSCE

Entrepreneur in Residence Atlas Venture

Dr. Bernard Ravina’s career has focused on therapeutics development in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. He has over 20 years of clinical research and therapeutics development experience in government, academia, and industry. Prior to working in the biotechnology industry, Dr. Ravina was an Investigator in the Neurogenetics Branch at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS, NIH), and Associate Professor of Neurology and Vice Chair of Neurology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. In biotechnology, he was Director of Clinical Development at Biogen and Chief Medical Officer at Voyager Therapeutics.

He holds an MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania where he completed residency training in neurology and a fellowship in movement disorders. Dr. Ravina is the author of more than 120 scientific publications and serves on multiple foundation and biotechnology scientific advisory boards.

The Hereditary Disease Foundation has long driven major pioneering discoveries in the field of Huntington’s disease. Its workshops and other programs promoting the research that led to these discoveries have had an immense and far broader impact.

H. Robert Horvitz, PhD Nobel Laureate Howard Hughes Medical Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology