Luis  Parada , Ph.D.

Luis F. Parada, Ph.D., is chair of the Department of Developmental Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He also directs the University’s Kent Waldrep Center for Basic Research on Nerve Growth and Regeneration. Dr. Parada's research interests include charting regulatory pathways involved in nervous system development, studying nerve cell signaling disorders that lead to the development of tumors in the brain and peripheral nervous system, and identifying molecules in myelin that inhibit nerve cell regeneration following injury. He is currently on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Pew Scholars Foundation and is a past member of the Rett Syndrome Research Foundation Board. His many honors include receiving the prestigious Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the NIH. Dr. Parada is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Institute of Medicine.