Gordon Freedman
Organizer & Co-founder of MitoWorld, President & Board Member of NLET (www.NLET.org)
Bio
Gordon Freedman is the founder and a board member of the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET), www.NLET.org, which is the sponsoring nonprofit for MitoWorld. NLET funding in education and employment comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Labor, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and state education and philanthropies. Freedman’s interest and commitment to mitochondria issues grew out of his ten year effort to decipher his own multiple health issues, which turned out to be mitochondrial in nature. During that process, Freedman, like many with rare conditions, consulted multiple doctors who had no knowledge of mitochondrial issues, did not believe in such diagnoses and often prescribed medication for other conditions. This experience plus a background on Capitol Hill, in the media and running NLET since 2011, made Freedman realize that we are on the precipice of a mitochondrial revolution in medicine, health, peak performance and longevity. After surveying many of the research labs, patient care and advocacy groups, and those involved in evolution, Freedman made the decision to commit time and effort to help organize and “mainstream” mitochondria issues for the public, patients, the medical community and mitochondria labs, institutes and researchers.