Vitthal Kulkarni, Ph.D.
Vitthal Kulkarni, Ph.D. is Scientific Advisor at DPT Laboratories San Antonio, TX.Dr. Kulkarni is highly experienced in developing and characterizing various non-invasive drug delivery systems including topical drug delivery systems comprised of liposomes, and nano-particles, emulsions and nasal spray products. After earning Ph.D. in Chemistry at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India in the area of surface/colloid chemistry, Dr. Kulkarni studied lipid monolayers, bilayers (liposomes), lipid nano-structures, and protein electron crystallography at various institutions including Université de Provence, Marseille, France, JEOL Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, University of Minnesota, and Yale University before moving into industry.
Dr. Kulkarni has been invited speaker at Drug Delivery Conferences and he has published research papers in peer-reviewed journals, industrial periodicals, book chapters and edited the book Non-Invasive Drug Delivery Systems (Elsevier). Dr. Kulkarni has been working at DPT Laboratories since 2003 and he is an active member of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, American Chemical Society, and the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine.