Shubha Tole
| Shubha Tole | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 1967 (age 49) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education |
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai Californian Institute of Technology, USA |
| Occupation | Neuroscientist |
| Employer | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Spouse(s) | Sandip Trivedi |
| Children | A. Tole-Trivedi & N. Tole-Trivedi |
| Parent(s) | Dr.Aruna P. Tole |
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
Shubha Tole (born August 1967) is an Indian neuroscientist, Professor and Principal Investigator at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. Her research involves investigating the development and evolution of the mammalian brain, and she has won many accolades for her work. She is famous for having discovered a gene that is crucial to the proper formation of the hippocampus, amygdala, and cortex of the brain, winning the Infosys Prize in the Life Sciences category in 2014. However, Tole’s work does not end in her lab. She is dedicated to fostering an appreciation and application of the sciences in students through public outreach talks, posting about scientific issues and topics on the internet, and mentoring pre and post-doctoral students. She is also a member of various scientific groups and societies.
Born to mother Dr.Aruna P. Tole, an occupational therapist who was responsible for the design of many low-cost innovative prostheses, aids and appliances for cancer patients, and a father who was director of SAMEER, an Institute under the Department of Electronics, Government of India, Shubha Tole was born into a prolific scientific family in August, 1967. While her family certainly nurtured Tole’s early love of science, school also provided motivation. Tole was inspired by her Class 6 teacher, Rose Naronha, and grew to love both biology and physics very much by grade 12. After her basic education, Tole decided to go on to study life sciences and biochemistry at St. Xavier’s College, in Mumbai instead of pursuing medical school. For her MS and PhD degrees, Dr.Tole came to the US to complete them at the California Institute of Technology. After successfully completing her degrees, Tole then decided to do post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago. In 1999, after spending more than a decade on her education in the US, Tole moved back to India and began work at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, where she is today. Her work today involves the investigation of how the developing brain comes to be and she has published many a paper and written many blogs targeted at a younger audience.
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