Dr. Vicky Cattani is the Associate Director of Research Programs at the Parkinson’s Foundation, where she manages a portfolio of awards and fellowships. Prior to joining the Parkinson’s Foundation, Dr. Cattani was a Senior Scientific Consultant at Eva Garland Consulting, where she helped small biotech businesses secure millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding towards product R&D. Dr. Cattani received her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Rochester, where her research focused on the genetics of speciation in fruit flies. She was then a Charles H. Revson Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Genomics and Systems Biology Center at New York University.