David Margulies is a physician and executive who has been a founder, co-founder, or senior executive of a number of public and private sector companies. He was the EVP/Chief Scientist/Director of Cerner Corporation, a co-founder of CareInsite (now WebMD), a co-founder/CEO/COB of Correlagen (acquired by LabCorp), a co-founder/COB of Q-State Biosciences (www.qstatebio.com), and a co-founder of several other health services and biotech companies. He has served on numerous public and private boards. He recently retired from the faculties of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital where he played a leadership role in the institutional genomic strategy.

“The confluence of a series of advances now makes it imaginable that one can develop medicines which will cause the adult human brain to attain greater levels of healing and functional regeneration. Recent advances in stem cell and iPSC biology, in all-optical electrophysiology, and genomically targeting medicines make such an effort not merely plausible, but essential."