Barbara Slusher

Dr. Barbara Slusher is Professor of Neurology, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Medicine, and Oncology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and serves as the Director of Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery. Dr. Slusher has published over 200 scientific articles and is the inventor of over 100 patents. Before joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Slusher spent 18 years in the pharmaceutical industry, including several years at the level of Senior Vice President of Research and Translational Development. She has extensive experience in drug discovery through early clinical development Since joining JHU, she has is co-founded four new companies amassing over $150M in funding. Dr. Slusher also founded the first-ever International Consortium of Academic Drug Discovery (www.addconsortium.org) and has served on multiple scientific advisory boards and steering committees including Janssen, Eisai, Inc., Bayer, Bluefield Innovations, Neurofibromatosis Therapeutic Acceleration Program, American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, and Longeviti Neurosolutions.