Anabella Villalobos

Dr. Anabella Villalobos was raised in Panama City. She received her BS in chemistry from the University of Panama and her Ph.D. (in 1987) at the University of Kansas.

 Dr. Villalobos was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and joined Pfizer in 1989, where she worked on a variety of Central nervous system (CNS) projects in medicinal chemistry and diagnostics against Alzheimer's disease.

 In 2016, Dr. Villalobos became the VP of Neuroscience and Pain medicinal chemistry, and published a video outreach campaign to describe her work and in 2017, she was recruited to be the Senior Vice President for Biotherapeutics & Medicinal Sciences at Biogen.

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