Carole A. Parent, Ph.D.

Since Dr. Parent was awarded the Arthur Flemming Award in 2013, she has continued to pursue research towards the sensing and response of cells to external chemical gradients during directed cell migration. She is mentoring a dynamic group of young scientists who apply a multidisciplinary approach to understand signaling pathways in complex physiological settings, with a direct impact on important processes such as inflammation, immune responses, tissue repair and cancer metastasis. As part of her duties as Deputy Chief of the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Dr. Parent continues to be actively involved in mentoring tenure-track investigators, postdoctoral fellows and staff scientists. She also serves on several mentoring committees in the National Institutes of Health. More recently, Dr. Parent was named co-Director of the UMD-NCI Partnership for Cancer Technology – a program that aims to bring together the expertise and resources available in physics and mathematics at the University of Maryland with the biomedical research ongoing at the National Cancer Institute. Furthermore, in May 2014, Dr. Parent was a speaker at the Graduating Class of the Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS) Program of the Thomas Wootton High School in Rockville, MD. Taken together, Dr. Parent’s activities highlight her passion about science, community service and mentoring at every level: from high school, college and graduate students to postdoctoral fellows and tenure-track Investigators.