Vivek Gupta PhD

Dr Vivek Gupta serves as Associate Dean of Graduate Education & Research and an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. Before joining St. John’s University in September 2016, Dr Gupta was an assistant professor of pharmaceutics at Keck Graduate Institute School of Pharmacy in Claremont, CA (2013-2016).

Dr Gupta is an experienced pharmaceutical researcher interested in developing novel respiratory disorders therapies. His expertise lies in novel drug discovery and repurposing, and non-invasive delivery of small and macromolecules via oral and inhalation routes. He also has significant research interest in the fields of pharmaceutical scalability, and nano-repurposing. Diseases of interest include lung cancer, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, and mesothelioma.

Dr. Gupta’s lab at St. John’s is well-equipped with the most updated formulation development and analytical equipment; and is consistently funded by federal and pharmaceutical industry research grants. Dr. Gupta’s research group has published >95 high-impact publications in peer-reviewed journals like Journal of Controlled Release, Materials Science & Engineering C, Drug Discovery Today, and Pharmaceutical Research to name a few. Dr. Gupta also serves on editorial boards of many peer-reviewed journals including PLOS One, Pharmaceutical Research, and International Journal of Molecular Sciences, to name a few; and is also involved in national pharmaceutical organizations including AAPS and CRS.

Multiple technologies and therapies developed by Dr. Gupta’s group have been patented and are at various stages of preclinical/clinical development. Dr. Gupta is also the current chapter adviser for the St. John ’s-AAPS Student Chapter; and is the organizer of the Annual Charles Jarowski Symposium in Pharmaceutical Sciences.