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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td><span class=default> <!-- <div id="translate-this"><a href="http://translateth.is/" class="translate-this-button">Translate</a></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://x.translateth.is/translate-this.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> TranslateThis(); </script> --> <!-- startprint --> <span class=default><p><strong>AMIT DOSHI</strong></p> <p>Amit Doshi is an investment professional at Tiger Global Management, a private investment firm. He was previously a private equity associate at Madison Dearborn Partners and an investment banking analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Amit has been involved with Prize4Life in various capacities since helping to launch the organization. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a JD from Harvard Law School and an AB in Economics from Harvard University.</p> <p><strong>NETTA KIVILIS</strong></p> <p>Netta Kivilis was involved with Prize4Life throughout her MBA program, helping to shape the organization's social media strategy and participating in fundraising events. Netta holds a BSc from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. After graduation she joined Amazon.com as part of their books group.</p> <p><strong>SARA SHNIDER MSc, PhD</strong></p> <p>Sara Shnider is a post-doctoral fellow in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and is a fellow in the winter 2010 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program. Sara completed her PhD in November 2009 in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University in the laboratory of Dr. Jeffrey Macklis. During her doctoral research, which was partially supported by an NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA F31) predoctoral fellowship, she focused on identification and characterization of genetic controls over the differentiation of corticospinal motor neurons, the critical neuronal population that controls voluntary movement in humans, and whose degeneration in diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) lead to debilitating, incurable paralysis. While in graduate school, Sara served as a scientific advisor for Prize4Life during the founding stages of the organization. Sara earned a BSc in biology with honors from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and an MSc in bioinformatics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.</p></span> <!-- stopprint --> </span></td> </tr> </table>
