Molecular Biology Program. In 2000, Feldman became director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for the Study of Complications in Diabetes (until 2010), Director of the ALS Center of Excellence at Michigan Medicine, and a fully endowed professor, the Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology. In 2005, she was named the Director of Michigan Medicine’s Neuropathy Center. She was appointed the inaugural Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute in 2007, after U-M received a multimillion-dollar gift from A. Alfred Taubman for its creation. Feldman is the author of more than 500 articles, 71 book chapters, and four books. Her research has been funded continually by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for over 30 years, and she currently is the principal investigator or co-Investigator of grants funded by the NIH, including the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award in 2021, as well as grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and private foundations. Feldman also leads multiple clinical trials focused on understanding and treating neurological disorders, with an emphasis on ALS and neuropathy. Feldman served as President of the Peripheral Nerve Society from 2007-2009 and President of the American Neurological Association (ANA) from 2011-2013. At that time, she was only the third woman elected as ANA President in 130 years. She was the first woman in 25 years to receive the Robert S. Schwab Award from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. She is also the only U-M alumnus to receive both Early and Distinguished Career Achievement Awards from the U-M Medical Alumni Society. This year, she was also given the University of Michigan's most prestigious honor, a Distinguished University Professorship, which was named after her longtime mentor James Albers, M.D., Ph.D. Among her many honors, Feldman is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and Association of American Physicians, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As of 2020, she chairs the NAM Neurology and Psychiatry Section. Feldman is the Editor of the Contemporary Neurology Series and also serves on a number of editorial boards for leading scientific journals, including The Lancet Neurology, Nature Reviews Neurology, JAMA Neurology and Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute In 2007, the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute was founded to support the