Caitlin Grezeskowiak
Chief Research and Innovation Officer,
Epilepsy Foundation
Caitlin Grzeskowiak, PhD, is the Chief Research and Innovation Officer at the Epilepsy Foundation of America, where she leads initiatives designed to accelerate research, innovation, and patient-centered impact across the epilepsy field. Since joining the Foundation in 2020, she has helped expand programs that connect patients, researchers, clinicians, startups, and industry partners to advance new treatments, tools, and care solutions. Her work at the Epilepsy Foundation includes leading key epilepsy focused initiatives including the Research Roundtable for Epilepsy, the biannual Pipeline Conference, the Epilepsy Foundation Shark Tank, the Accelerator Course for epilepsy-focused startups, and the Epilepsy Foundation’s Next Generation Clinician and Scientist Fellowships portfolio. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Grzeskowiak worked on civic science outreach and cross-disciplinary science policy initiatives at Research!America. She completed her postdoctoral training at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she developed technology related to predicting patients’ responses to immunotherapy, and earned her PhD in Molecular and Human Genetics from Baylor College of Medicine.
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