Vicky Cattani, Ph.D., joined the NIA Office of Strategic Extramural Programs (OSEP) as Program Officer in February 2024. In this role, she is responsible for promoting and supporting small businesses seeking SBIR/STTR funding in the age tech space. In addition, she helps small business awardees advance toward commercialization by coordinating and supporting programs to expose awardees to investors, strategic partners, and key stakeholders.
Before joining NIA, Vicky served as the Associate Director of Research Programs at the Parkinson’s Foundation, where she oversaw a diverse portfolio aimed at understanding the mechanisms and advancing a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Prior to the Foundation, Vicky was a Senior Scientific Consultant at Eva Garland Consulting. As such, she helped hundreds of startups and biotech companies to secure millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding towards product development and commercialization. Vicky has ample experience in delivering training seminars and workshops on non-dilutive funding application strategies, and she has served as a grant reviewer for various local and federal agencies.
Vicky earned her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Rochester, and subsequently served as a Charles H. Revson Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Genomics and Systems Biology Center at New York University.