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James Allen Heywood is co-founder and chairman of Patients Like Me, a health information website patients use to share personalized medical information. An engineering graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Heywood entered the field of translational research in 1998 when his then just 29-year-old brother Stephen was diagnosed with ALS. Since that time, he has pursued scientific and business innovations to advance patient care and the field of personalized medicine. In 1999, Mr. Heywood founded the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI), the world's first non-profit biotechnology company, where he served as CEO until 2007.

He is a published author, speaker and investment advisor whose efforts have been profiled in publications ranging from The New Yorker to the New York Times, Science magazine and the television news magazine "60 Minutes." Mr. Heywood and his brother Stephen were also the subjects of Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Wiener's biography, His Brother's Keeper: A Story From the Edge of Medicine and the Sundance award-winning documentary "So Much So Fast."