Virginia Gao received her B.A. in Neuroscience from Columbia and her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Mount Sinai. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the EPFL in Switzerland. Her Ph.D. work on the molecular mechanisms underlying memory consolidation was supervised by Cristina Alberini and funded by a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award. She is currently a Neurology Resident at Weill Cornell where she serves as Chief Resident. As a Leon Levy Research Fellow, she will work in the laboratory of Jacqueline Burré on biochemical changes underlying Parkinson’s disease pathology in the central and enteric nervous system.
