39072-Iyengar, Smriti
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Smriti Iyengar, PhD, MSC

Adjunct Senior Research Professor of Anesthesia

Phone (317) 278-5840
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Bio

Smriti Iyengar, PhD, is Program Director for the newly formed Preclinical Screening Platform for Pain (PSPP) program, in the Division of Translational Research, NINDS.  She is a neuroscientist with extensive research and drug development experience focused on neuro-disorders including pain and headache.  She is an adjunct Senior Research Professor in the Department of Anesthesia, and in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Indiana University School of Medicine. Her research interests include pain and headache mechanisms. She was formerly at Eli Lilly and Company, and prior to that at G.D. Searle and Company, Schering-Plough Inc. and Ciba Geigy.  

Her drug discovery expertise includes target, lead and clinical candidate identification and characterization, as well as translational and clinical development, regulatory strategy, launch, and commercialization.  She played a key role in the development of duloxetine for pain and depression and has made significant contributions to >20 clinical candidates across a range of neuroscience targets, including CGRP and 5HT1F.  Her postdoctoral training was at Rutgers University as a Charles and Johanna Busch Fellow in the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, with her research focused on central regulation of opioid function and central regulation of neuroendocrine function including the HPA axis and stress.

She received her PhD from M.S. University of Baroda, India, where she worked on the neurochemical basis of behavior in the developing brain. She has served as a member of several  permanent and ad-hoc national and international committees established to evaluate research issues and to accelerate translational medicine in the area of pain, including ACTTION, IMMPACT, IMI Europain, TI Pharma translational pharmacology pain consortium and the Imaging consortium for drug development, as well as a member of  several grant committees and cross functional strategy committees in neuroscience and pain. She is a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.




Titles & Appointments

  • Adjunct Senior Research Professor of Anesthesia
  • Adjunct Senior Research Professor of Medicine
  • Education
    1980 PhD Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
    1976 MSC Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
    1974 BSC Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

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