The Mind First Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by Boston-area scientists and innovators. The Foundation takes a mind-centric or “mind first” approach to managing large-scale problems, by focusing on research and development of better AI and human mindware, and the development of a mutually beneficial relationship between the two. The Foundation maintains a close network of consulting scientists, who are leaders in their respective fields.
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Preston Estep, Ph.D. is Chief Scientist and founder of the Mind First Foundation and the RaDVaC project. Dr. Estep studied neuroscience at Cornell University where he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute undergraduate scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University. He has been a founder or advisor to the Harvard Personal Genome Project, and to many biotech startup companies.
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Alex Hoekstra is Director of Community and co-founder of the Mind First Foundation, and of the RaDVaC project. He has previously served as both a staff member and participatory research pioneer at the Harvard Personal Genome Project, and worked to advance accessibility and rationality across multiple fields of life sciences.
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Ranjan Ahuja is Director of Communications at the Mind First Foundation and RaDVaC, and co-founder of RaDVaC. He is also a staff member (currently on leave) at the Harvard Personal Genome Project. He is committed to accelerating benefits to society through open source and open access science.
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Brian M. Delaney is Chief Philosophy Officer at the Mind First Foundation, and Clinical Trials Liaison at RaDVaC. He has founded and run several nonprofit and not-for-profit research organizations focused on health and longevity, with a particular emphasis on mental and neurological health.