Pankaj Desai, PhD

Senior Pharmacokinetics Consultant

Dr. Desai is an Associate Professor of Pharmacokinetics, and Director of the Drug Development Graduate Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. Dr. Desai has over 18 years of experience in teaching and consulting in several areas of the pharmaceutical sciences, including drug development, pharmacokinetic modeling (preclinical and clinical models), drug-drug interactions, and drug metabolism. His input routinely leads to data-based justification for streamlined design of preclinical programs (e.g., species, dose selection) and clinical programs (dose selection, controlled-release modeling, drug interaction potential, and exposure calculations for safety assessment).

Dr. Desai holds a BS in pharmacy (Birla Institute), a MS in Pharmaceutics (Gujarat University), and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of South Carolina). He is an active member in 8 professional organizations, and a scientific reviewer for 7 peer-reviewed journals in the medical and pharmaceutical sciences. He is the past chair of the Drug Metabolism Focus Group of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. Dr. Desai has mentored more than 25 MS/Ph.D. students and received several awards for teaching and research excellence.