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

Expertise:
Blood-brain and blood-csf barriers, Central Nervous System, Computational Modeling, Drug Metabolism, Drug Transporters, Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics, Pregnancy and Fetal Pharmacology, Quantitative techniques, Simulation Modeling, Translational Research

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 the Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professor 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 200 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. Dr. Unadkat created and leads the UW Research Affiliates Program on Transporters (UWRAPT), funded by pharmaceutical companies and UWPKDAP, a NIDA funded Program Project grant (P01) on drug disposition during pregnancy.

Selected Publications

(PubMed.gov)