Jashvant Unadkat
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutics Faculty, School Faculty, UWPKDAP
Telephone: 206-685-2869
Email: jash@uw.edu
Office Location: H272-L, HSB, Univ. of WA
Office Hours: M-F 9am - 5 pm.
Website: PubMed
Accepting Students to Lab: No
Education
- PhD, University of Manchester
Research Interests
- Mechanisms of drug transport and metabolism
- Maternal-fetal pharmacology
Courses Taught
- PCEUT 501
- PCEUT 506
- PCEUT 532
Biography
Jashvant (Jash) Unadkat, Ph.D. is a Professor of Pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle. He received his Bachelor 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 studies the mechanisms of transport and metabolism of drugs, including during pregnancy. Dr. Unadkat has published more than 250 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, the ISSX Research Achievement Award in 2023 . Dr. Unadkat created and led the UW Research Affiliates Program on Transporters (UWRAPT) for 10 years, funded by pharmaceutical companies, leads UWPKDAP, a NIDA funded Program Project grant (P01) on drug disposition during pregnancy and co-leads UW Transporter Elucidation Center (https://depts.washington.edu/uwtec/) funded by NICHD to identify and characterize novel transporters in the placenta and the developing intestine.