Luis F. Parada is a Colombian developmental biologist and neuroscientist who currently serves as Director of the Brain Tumor Center, Albert C. Foster Chair and American Cancer Society Research Professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, New York.
Parada moved to University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1994, and founded the Center for Developmental Biology and was the Diana and Richard C. Strauss Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology.
He also served as Director of the Kent Waldrep Center for Basic Research on Nerve Growth and Regeneration.
where he also holds appointments in the Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, and the departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology[2] Parada's medical research emphasizes deciphering the mechanisms of brain development, associated disorders, and cancer biology, and has led to identification of molecules that inhibit nerve regeneration after injury.
[6] Parada received the prestigious Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health in 2007.