Todd Sherer is the Chief Mission Officer of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, the largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's research. Trained as a neuroscientist, he is deeply focused on the organization's research strategy, charting a course for the coming era of Parkinson's discovery and drug development. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University investigating the role of environmental factors in Parkinson's, Todd joined the Foundation's staff in 2004 and was named Chief Executive Officer in 2011, and Chief Mission Officer in 2021.