President & CEO
Dana Foundation
Caroline Montojo
- 2026
- Attendee
Caroline Montojo, PhD, is President & CEO of the Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization in NYC dedicated to advancing neuroscience & society by supporting cross-disciplinary intersections such as neuroscience & ethics, law, policy, humanities, and social sciences. She leads Dana’s new mission to advance neuroscience that benefits society & reflects the aspirations of all people.
Caroline serves on the Science Philanthropy Alliance Board & is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Springer Nature Research Advisory Council, US NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group & NASEM Forum for Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders. Caroline completed postdoctoral research in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, for which she was awarded the Arnold Scheibel Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience & Stephen R. Mallory Schizophrenia Research Awards, and received her MA & PhD at Johns Hopkins University.