Catalina Vasquez

Catalina Vasquez has over 12 years of management experience. Ms. Vasquez is the former Program Director for the Alberta Prostate Cancer Research Initiative (APCaRI), where she coordinated the translational goals of the team. APCaRI’s overall goal is to develop new diagnostic tests for prostate cancer, to discover novel biomarkers for aggressive prostate cancer, and to conduct clinical trials to establish the value of new diagnostics in the clinic. She was also the lead at the Prostate Cancer Registry and Biorepository in Edmonton, Alberta. Prior to coming to Alberta, she served as Project Manager for Investigator Initiated Trials with the Lawson Health Research Institute at the London Health Sciences Centre, and as Laboratory Manager in Dr. John Lewis’ laboratory at Western University. Ms. Vasquez earned her MSc. in Medical Biophysics at Western University in 2011.