Lorraine N. Clark, PhD, is currently an associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Taub Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging Research and is co-director in the Division of Personalized Genomic Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. She received a Bsc (Hons) in biology and genetics from the University of London, UK; her PhD in molecular biology from the University of Manchester; and performed her postdoctoral studies in human genetics at the University of California, San Francisco. She has over 20 years of experience in studying the genetics of neurodegenerative disease with a focus on common age-related neurodegenerative disease including Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor.