is the president and founder of the Myelin Repair Foundation. At age 20, Johnson was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In 2002, after waiting 26 years for a cure, he decided to leverage his expertise to create a new business model for medical research that would accelerate the process and get new treatments to patients who, like himself, had waited long enough. Featured in Fortune as a “lifesaving shakeup in the world of medical research,” Johnson’s groundbreaking ideas have been covered in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, and Scientific American. He is a passionate advocate for the need to innovate from the bottom-up to change the status quo in the medical research enterprise.

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