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Tanuja Bordia

Research Neuroscientist, Neurodegenerative Diseases Program, Center for Health Sciences
Tanuja Bordia of SRI International

Tanuja Bordia, Ph.D. is a research neuroscientist in the Neurodegenerative Diseases Program in SRI International’s Center for Health Sciences. She received her doctorate in toxicology from the University of Rajasthan, India. She next did postdoctoral studies at the Parkinson’s Institute in Sunnyvale, California, where she was subsequently promoted to staff scientist. Bordia then moved to SRI.

Bordia works on several projects to research nicotine-mediated effects in different Parkinson’s disease model and L-dopa-induced dyskinesias, with particular emphasis on changes in nicotinic receptors.

Bordia has authored or co-authored more than 19 scientific manuscripts.