Dr. Carole A. Parent obtained B.Pharm. and M.Sc. degrees from the Université of Montréal and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Peter N. Devreotes in the Department of Biological Chemistry of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Dr. Parent joined the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the NCI in 2000, received tenure in 2006, was appointed Deputy Chief in 2010, and Deputy Director of the Center for Cancer Research at the NCI in 2016. After 17 years at the NCI, Dr. Parent moved to the University of Michigan in 2017 as the inaugural Raymond and Lynne Ruddon Collegiate Professor in Cancer Biology and Pharmacology. She is jointly appointed in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology. Her laboratory is housed in the Life Sciences Institute of the University of Michigan, where she is a Research Professor. Dr. Parent is a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Parent's research program focuses on identifying the mechanisms that mediate how neutrophils reach infection and injury as well as tumor sites. To do so, her group exploits complementary ex vivo and in vivo model systems, cutting-edge live imaging, and a transdisciplinary approach.