Batoul M Dawi

Assistant Program Officer - Research Grants, Research Directorate

Biography

Batoul is a graduate of University College London, where she completed a BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience. Her dissertation investigated perturbations in glucose metabolism in the Parkinsonian brain. She has since undertaken several internships in the molecular neurosciences at prestigious laboratories around the world such as the Grundke-Iqbal Lab at the Institute of Basic Research in developmental disabilities, New York and the Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Sciences, UK. Recently, Batoul pursued her passion for science policy as a summer policy fellow at the Duke University Science & Society Institute where she drafted policy documents around Medicaid coverage for genetic testing in undiagnosed rare disease.