Jashvant Unadkat, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmaceutics,
University of Washington
Box 357610
Seattle, WA 98195-7610
E-mail: jash@u.washington.edu
Phone: (206) 543-9434

BioSketch

Jashvant (Jash) Unadkat, Ph.D. is a Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Washington, Seattle. He received his Bachelors degree in Pharmacy (B.Pharm.) from the University of London (1977), his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester (1982) and his postdoctoral training at the University of California at San Francisco (1982-85). Dr. Unadkat’s research interests are focused on elucidating the mechanisms of transport of anti-AIDS and anti-cancer drugs across the intestine, placenta and the blood-brain/CSF barrier by the nucleoside and the ABC transporters. Dr. Unadkat has published more than 85 peer-reviewed research papers. Dr. Unadkat is a fellow of AAPS and the founding member and the past chair (1999-2001) of the focus group of AAPS on Drug Transport and Uptake. Dr. Unadkat is a former Associate Editor and a present editorial board member of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, an Associate Editor of AAPS PharmSci, and a member of the NIH Pharmacology study section (2000-2004).