Shitalben Patel is a Scientist in the chemical biology group at AbbVie. Her role involves developing high-throughput chemoproteomics workflows, employing chemical biology technologies to understand drug-target engagement, on and off-target selectivity profiling, as well as mechanism-of-action for small molecule drug discovery. She received her Master of Science in Applied Biology from the Missouri University of Science and Technology before joining the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a Research Scientist for 15 years, where she focused on translational research in pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics.