Dr. Adriana Galvan received her masters and doctoral degrees in Mexico City (Mexico) and completed postdoctoral research training at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia). She joined the faculty of Emory University in 2009 and is currently an associate professor of neurology. She studies the primate basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuitry, the brain regions that are involved in the planning and execution of movement. This circuit is strongly affected in Parkinson’s disease. Her work is conducted at the Emory National Primate Research Center, where she uses functional and anatomical techniques, including electrophysiological recordings, optogenetic and chemogenetic techniques and calcium imaging techniques, as well as light and electron microscopy approaches. Dr. Galvan is also a project leader of Emory’s Udall Center of Excellence in Parkinson’s Disease Research and she receives independent research funding from the National Institutes of Health. She has also established several research collaborations with both academic and industry researchers.