Corner Office: Uprooting the Foundation

We have also redefined the very landscape of NF research by enhancing collaboration in a deeply meaningful way, by building teams of multidisciplinary scientists from world-class labs into consortia that we call synodos. These multiyear, multimillion-dollar collaborations are redefining the way research is done. In fact, we chose the word synodos because it is derived from the ancient Greek, and it means "to be on the same path together." And this is what the NF synodos team is about—not just about competition, but about attracting courageous researchers across disease disciplines who are willing to share their unpublished data and information with others, in order to accelerate the drug discovery process.