Dr. Shalini Padmanaban
Shalini Padmanabhan is Senior Vice President and head of Translational Research at The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. She has earned an undergraduate degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from U.I.C.T, India and a PhD in Neuroscience from the Medical College of Georgia. Shalini trained as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, working on novel targets to treat Parkinson’s disease.
At MJFF, she oversees a team of professionals, closely linked to Parkinson's community to develop an innovative strategic vision for accelerating research and drug development for Parkinson's disease. Shalini's team primarily focuses on developing, implementing and managing programs that fall within the early drug discovery pipeline that includes discovery biology efforts, target id and validation efforts, preclinical therapeutic develop and biofluid biomarker efforts.