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Carole Parent is the Raymond W Ruddon Collegiate Professor in Cancer Biology and Pharmacology at the University of Michigan Medical School. She earned her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from Université de Montréal and a Ph.D. in Pharmacodynamics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, she joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2000, where she served as Deputy Chief and Deputy Director of the Center for Cancer Research. In 2017, she transitioned to the University of Michigan, where she is also a Research Professor in the Life Sciences Institute. Parent's research focuses on the mechanisms that enable neutrophils to migrate to sites of infection and tumor progression, employing advanced imaging and ex vivo models to explore these processes. She is recognized as a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Admission for Biological Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Human Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmacology, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Cancer Biology, and Neuroscience is primary handled through the PIBS (Program in Biomedical Sciences) gateway.