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Owen A. Ross, PhD is a native of Ireland, who moved to the Department of Neuroscience at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida in 2005. Dr. Ross’ laboratory is focused on identifying genetic determinants of disease risk. His team works primarily on Parkinson’s disease and related movement disorders including Lewy body dementia, multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy. He has co-authored of over 350 publications on ageing and age-related disease. He identified LRRK2 risk and protective variants and VPS35 mutations as a cause of Parkinson’s disease. He received the 2016 Mayo Clinic Team Science award for the genetics of Parkinson’s disease research with his clinical (Dr. Zbigniew Wszolek) and neuropathology (Dr. Dennis Dickson) colleagues in Florida. Dr. Ross is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience (with a joint appointment in Clinical Genomics). He has been actively engaged for over a decade with Neuroscience Track within the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and became Director in 2021.