Dr. Boominathan obtained her Ph.D in Biochemistry from the National Chemical Laboratory, India and subsequently had her postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University.

As an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow, she studied protein import into mitochondria, Fe-S cluster biosynthesis and mechanisms of fusion and fission in mitochondria.

With more than 18 years of experience in mitochondrial biogenesis, she leads a highly motivated team of researchers at SRF in furthering our understanding and developing therapies for myopathies from mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations.