Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Jashvant (Jash) Unadkat, Ph.D. is a Professor at the School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle. He received his Bachelors degree in Pharmacy 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 metabolism and transport of drugs during pregnancy, and transport of drugs across the placental, hepatic, intestinal and blood-brain barrier. Dr. Unadkat has published more than 240 peer-reviewed research papers. He is a fellow of AAAS, AAPS, JSSX, and the founding co-chair (1999-2001) of the focus group of AAPS on Drug Transport and Uptake. Dr. Unadkat received the AAPS Research Achievement Award in 2012 and the ISSX Scientific Achievement Award in 2023. Dr. Unadkat created and led for 10 years the UW Research Affiliates Program on Transporters (UWRAPT). He also leads UWPKDAP, a NIDA funded Program Project grant on drug disposition during pregnancy and co-leads NICHD funded UW Transporter Elucidation Center to identify and characterize novel transporters in the developing placenta and the intestine.
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