Shubha Tole

Shubha Tole' (born August 1967) is an Indian neuroscientist, professor and principal Investigator at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India.

Tole studied life sciences and biochemistry at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai and earned her master's and doctoral degrees at the California Institute of Technology in the United States.

[4] Dr. Tole and her research group is credited with the discovery of the role of the regulatory gene LHX2, which controls aspects of how the amygdala, cortex, and hippocampus form during early brain development.

Her research group also discovered dual developmental origins for structures that control reproductive and aggressive behavior in the accessory olfactory bulb in mammals.

[7] In 2014, Tole was awarded the Infosys Prize of 55 lakh rupees for her work elucidating the mechanisms and genes involved in the formation of the hippocampus.