
CaleighFindley, PhD
Communications and Content Manager, BrightFocus Foundation
Biography
Caleigh has several years of experience in scientific writing and communications for science non-profits and pharmaceutical industry. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where she completed an honors thesis on the predictive efficacy of biomarkers and cognitive measures in Alzheimer’s disease. She then completed her doctoral degree in pharmacology and neuroscience at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Her dissertation examined neurotransmission and metabolism imbalances in Alzheimer’s disease.
She can be reached at cfindley@brightfocus.org.
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